Not Able to Access my D: Drive

[Nanor]

I have two hard drives, a C: drive and a D: drive. The C drive is a Maxtor 2F040J0 (I think) and the D drive is a Maxtor 6E040L0, however, they may be the other way around.

I recently bought a new motherboard and processor and installed them and connected all the IDE cables and so forth, but when I started my PC I noticed I wasn't starting X-Fire as I usually do when my system starts up. I found the short cut and double clicked it but it couldn't find it. I opened My Computer and double clicked the D: drive short cut to get the error:

"D:\ is not accessible.

This request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."

I don't like the sound of that..

Now, my computer knows it's there, it can tell me what make it is and the capacity of it, but it can't access it. I don't have a clue why. It's plugged in if it's detecting it, right?

Please don't tell me my hard drive has crashed and I need to format as I may just rip my hair out.

I appreciate the help guys and rep for whoever solves my woes!

 

[thatbloke]

Ok go to control panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer management and click on Disk Management on the left hand menu.

What does it say in there about your drives?

 

[thatbloke]

ALSO: reading the other thread you posted elsewhere you say you have them connected to different IDE channels. Why? chuck em on the same IDE cable (making sure that both jumpers are set to either Cable select or your main one is Master and the secondary one is set as slave)

 

[Nanor]

A picture speaks a thousand words.

 

[VibroAxe]

indeed they do,

windows has been unable to detect the file system on the disk. This could mean several things, but I would first point my finger of blame at the Partition Table

See if you can find a copy of Partition Magic, install/run and see what it makes of it!

 

[thatbloke]

Is that a different physical drive? If so it looks like windows cannot for whatever reason detect the filesystem on that disk.

Try running chkdsk on that drive, see if it will actually run.

 

[VibroAxe]

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

 

[Nanor]

Cool, downloading.

 

[Nanor]

chkdsk D: has said:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Nanor>chkdsk D:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

40138370 KB total disk space.
37131980 KB in 62042 files.
26980 KB in 3169 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
133998 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
2845412 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
10034592 total allocation units on disk.
711353 allocation units available on disk."


EDIT:

I ran chkdsk D: /f and it said this:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Nanor>chkdsk D: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
The second NTFS boot sector is unwriteable."

 

[Iron_fist]

good to see that it's fixed but as bloke has just said the fact that it's giving you an error would imply that the disk may be on it's way out.

as the error is at the start of the disk you could try running HDDregen on it to see if it flags or fixes bad sectors ( the trial is fine for fixing the start of disk which is where the flagged problem is )

 

[Haven]

Yup thats definately a lovely unformatted disk you have there mate. If you right click on the bit that says Disk 1 you may get the option to activate that disk ... if you do then take it.

 

[thatbloke]

Yup thats definately a lovely unformatted disk you have there mate. If you right click on the bit that says Disk 1 you may get the option to activate that disk ... if you do then take it.

Running chkdsk sorted out his problem

 

[Haven]

That'll teach him to play football with it!