HDD unreadable suddenly

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Hi...

I have a 5 years old Seagate 200GB drive, it had the "Compress this drive to save disk space" turned on, which was done longtime ago... Last night I unchecked "Compress this drive to save disk space" when I tried to to access the Drive I get "drive corrupted or unreadable" message.. the drive was working fine before that.. :(

anyone know if that can be fixed, Im running chdisk right know and getting this "Deleting corrupt attribute record (180, "")" and "Deleting orphan file segment record xxxxxx" chdisk is not finished yet...

Im btw. running Vista Business 64bit SP1

thx :cry:

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I believe that once you compress a HD, it should be left that way. Wait until chkdesk is finished and you can try to replace that check mark but it may be too late.

Oops :(

Just finished the chdisk, everything was working fine except for one folder which was gone :s... After reboot the drive was gone from "Computer" and found it under "Computer Management" as Unallocated drive :(.. I'll try to make a new partition... :(

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don't know anything about seagate but WD has utilities for checking SMART status, writing 0s to the drive, etc. you could see what similar utilities seagate has on their site for diagnosing problems. if it fails to write a partition though it sounds dead.

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Its totally weird now... I have 2 ATA HDD connect to my computer.. The one I have problem with and another 200GB seagate, the working one as master and the other one as slave. When I take the working one out and put the slave drive as master I can see the drive in windows, but it was formated so I can't the files. As soon as I put the working one in as slave, windows gives me black screen after the bootscreen, it wont go to the logon screen... but bios can find it and gives the correct name ""ST3200022A"

I'll try to to see if I can find any utilities at seagate.. thx

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You should be able to put the drives in the original configuration. Go into Disk Management and delete the current partition(s). That should remove all partitions and formating information. Then simply create a new partition and format.

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Okay... I tried to change my 200GB drive out with my sisters 200GB drive... and same thing happened, got a black screen after the boot screen... BIOS detected the drives, so I thought there must be something wrong with windows. I then did a system restore to "yesterday", now I get the logon screen :)... I can find the drive that didn't work before in windows.. but I still lost the files, I only had some few important files :p... there is nothing wrong with HDD's health....

Now I got some free space, I can use :p

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