I recently purchased a new 300GB Western Digital Hard Drive, model name WD3000JBRTL. I tried to install this device today on a IDE cable with my WD2500JB that leads to a promise ultra133 TX2 controller card. Neither of them is the boot drive that windows XP runs on.
Before attempting to install the new drive, I had the WD2500JB as the only hard drive on the IDE cable, and was set as a single master drive on the jumper in the back (this setting is no jumper put in, all pins open). This drive had been working fine up till now, and I had stored much valuable data on the drive.
Now, when installing the new drive (WD3000JBRTL), i mounted the drive, and i put the long end of the IDE cable (master) which was originally in the WD2500JB, into the WD3000JBRTL. I plugged in the unused slave part of the IDE cable into the WD2500JB. I then set the jumper on the back of the WD2500JB to slave (which is setting the jumper 2nd from the right), but, by mistake, i also set the jumper on the WD3000JBRTL to slave as well instead of setting it as dual-master (i put the jumper in the same position as the WD2500JB instead of in the center where it is supposted to go). I then booted up my computer without noticing my mistake.
When I went into the Disk Management screen in the Administrative Tools section of the Control Panel, the WD3000JBRTL was reading as a total space of over 500GB (I believe it was 519.17GB or a number close to that), and it was reading my WD2500JB as a total space of around 160GB. Both said they were Unallocated space. I then shut down my computer and noticed my error with the jumpers, and put the jumper to the correct center position on the WD3000JBRTL. After booting up the computer again, i went back into the device manager and it read both of the drives at the correct total disk space (232.88GB for the WD2500JB and somewhere around 270GB for the WD3000JBRTL), but both of the drives said their space was unallocated (black bar instead of blue bar).
I then decided to shut down again and remove the new WD3000JBRTL, and i set my settings back to as they were before installation, (i removed the jumper in the back of the WD2500GB, which is the setting for single-master, and put the long part of the IDE cable back in), and booted up again. Now, when I go into the Disk Management again, it reports the correct drive size, but says the Drive Status is "Unallocated" with a black bar instead of "Healthy" with a blue bar before I tried to install the WD3000JBRTL. The device manager says under Drive Status that "This drive is working properly.", although I cannot access the drive anymore.
My question is... by having both the Master and the Slave drive set to slave on the jumper settings, did I in effect delete all of the information I had stored on the WD2500JB, or undo its partiton so my computer cannot recognise the drive anymore? I would like to solve the problem of retrieving the important information I had stored on my WD2500JB before I get to installing the WD3000JBRTL.
My guess is that some sort of Data Recovery program would fix the problem... but are there any ones that are good and for free? I called up Western Digital Tech Support and they have absolutely NO CLUE what happened.
BTW... I have
-Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1
-Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0ghz
Thanks SO MUCH for your help
EDIT: here is my hjt file incase it is needed...
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 9:32:22 PM, on 27/04/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\CTsvcCDA.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\MsPMSPSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Creative\ShareDLL\CtNotify.exe
C:\Program Files\Creative\SBLive\AudioHQ\AHQTB.EXE
C:\Program Files\Creative\ShareDLL\MediaDet.Exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\devldr32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S0BIC1.EXE
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\MRU-Blaster\scheduler.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\RESTOR~1\r2k_wnt.int
C:\install files\hijackthis\HijackThis.exe
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F0 - R >ystem.ini: Shel>=
F0 - R >ystem.ini: UserInit=
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O2 - BHO: CleanMyPC Popup Blocker - {7A9BC6B1-7F27-47c6-A66D-13582E81E537} - C:\Program Files\CleanMyPC Popup Blocker\CleanBHO.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {A5366673-E8CA-11D3-9CD9-0090271D075B} - C:\PROGRA~1\FlashGet\jccatch.dll
O3 - Toolbar: FlashGet Bar - {E0E899AB-F487-11D5-8D29-0050BA6940E3} - C:\PROGRA~1\FlashGet\fgiebar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: CleanMyPC Toolbar - {04164EC4-1E48-4279-818E-3721931E7636} - C:\Program Files\CleanMyPC Popup Blocker\CleanBar.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Disc Detector] C:\Program Files\Creative\ShareDLL\CtNotify.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AHQInit] C:\Program Files\Creative\SBLive\Program\AHQInit.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AudioHQ] C:\Program Files\Creative\SBLive\AudioHQ\AHQTB.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Jet Detection] "C:\Program Files\Creative\SBLive\PROGRAM\ADGJDet.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [EPSON Stylus C62 Series] C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S0BIC1.EXE /P23 "EPSON Stylus C62 Series" /O5 "LPT1:" /M "Stylus C62"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [adobe_cfg] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\adobe_cfg.exe" /startup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Zone Labs Client] "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [adobe_start] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\adobe_start.exe" /startup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [cmssSystemProcess] C:\WINDOWS\System32\csmss.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\System32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Microsoft Works Update Detection] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Works\WkDetect.exe
O4 - Startup: MRU-Blaster Scheduler.lnk = C:\Program Files\MRU-Blaster\scheduler.exe
O4 - Startup: MRU-Blaster Silent Clean.lnk = C:\Program Files\MRU-Blaster\mrublaster.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download All by FlashGet - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\jc_all.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download using FlashGet - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\jc_link.htm
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: AOL Instant Messenger ™ (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: FlashGet (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: &FlashGet (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: Messenger (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Messenger (HKLM)
O12 - Plugin for .bcf: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPBelv32.dll
O12 - Plugin for .spop: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPDocBox.dll
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Chat - http://us.chat1.yimg...t/c381/chat.cab
O16 - DPF: {0000000A-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} - http://download.micr...0367/wmavax.CAB
O16 - DPF: {03F998B2-0E00-11D3-A498-00104B6EB52E} - https://components.v.../sti/index.html
O16 - DPF: {166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000} (Shockwave ActiveX Control) - http://download.macr...ector/swdir.cab
O16 - DPF: {1DA3C4AB-E6B6-47A6-B0F3-1BD81524B51B} (ActiveWorldsDownload Control) - http://www.activewor...ldsDownload.cab
O16 - DPF: {2917297F-F02B-4B9D-81DF-494B6333150B} (Minesweeper Flags Class) - http://messenger.zon...MineSweeper.cab
O16 - DPF: {2BC66F54-93A8-11D3-BEB6-00105AA9B6AE} (Symantec AntiVirus scanner) - http://security.syma...bin/AvSniff.cab
O16 - DPF: {2E28242B-A689-11D4-80F2-0040266CBB8D} (KX-HCM10 Control) - http://benkyodo.plala.jp/kxhcm10.ocx
O16 - DPF: {31B7EB4E-8B4B-11D1-A789-00A0CC6651A8} (Cult3D ActiveX Player) - http://www.cult3d.co...wnload/cult.cab
O16 - DPF: {33564D57-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} - http://download.micr...922/wmv9VCM.CAB
O16 - DPF: {39B0684F-D7BF-4743-B050-FDC3F48F7E3B} (FilePlanet Download Control Class) - http://www.fileplane...DC_1_0_0_44.cab
O16 - DPF: {41F17733-B041-4099-A042-B518BB6A408C} - http://a1540.g.akama...meInstaller.exe
O16 - DPF: {55F2FE00-C6E1-11D4-84BC-009027889212} (Seagate DiscWizard English) - http://www.seagate.c...in/npdscwiz.cab
O16 - DPF: {644E432F-49D3-41A1-8DD5-E099162EEEC5} (Symantec RuFSI Utility Class) - http://security.syma...n/bin/cabsa.cab
O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai...all/xscan53.cab
O16 - DPF: {8E0D4DE5-3180-4024-A327-4DFAD1796A8D} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zon...StatsClient.cab
O16 - DPF: {917623D1-D8E5-11D2-BE8B-00104B06BDE3} (CamImage Class) - http://do3dl.serveft...sCamControl.cab
O16 - DPF: {9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} (Update Class) - http://v4.windowsupd...7942.7034837963
O16 - DPF: {C5E28B9D-0A68-4B50-94E9-E8F6B4697514} (NsvPlayX Control) - http://www.nullsoft....ayx_vp3_mp3.cab
O16 - DPF: {C5E28B9D-0A68-4B50-94E9-E8F6B4697516} (NsvPlayX Control) - http://ntcast.com/tv...ayx_vp6_mp3.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://download.macr...ash/swflash.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553542500} - http://active.macrom...abs/swflash.cab
O16 - DPF: {F8500B09-46D8-4DFA-B6BA-CE1DC96C9626} (MetaGateX Class) - http://www.metagate.ne.jp/MGX.cab
O16 - DPF: {FA3662C3-B8E8-11D6-A667-0010B556D978} (IWinAmpActiveX Class) - http://cdn.digitalci...illama/ampx.cab
O16 - DPF: {FE5D6722-826F-11D5-A24E-0060B0F1A5AE} (Tukati Launcher) - http://3dgamers.tuka....9.9/tukati.cab
Edited by awddrifter, 27 April 2005 - 09:49 PM.
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