WD2500BEVS (HDD)

[Dante0217]

I have here a HDD that I have had lying around for a while, its my wife's and I'n now trying to salvage some pictures out of it. Since im fairly new i assumed that i could plug in the SATA cable and power and VOILA! That's not the case. So now I am stumped.

 

 

 

 

The drive is from a Dell Inspiron 1520 that was on Vista. The laptop was bought Late Summer 2008. That's about all the info i have at the moment.

 

I'm on Windows 8. Let me know if you need more info. I appreciate any and ALL help.

[Enderman]

That's not the case.

...and the case is what exactly....?

[Dante0217]

...and the case is what exactly....?

Lol sorry, i guess i was frustrated and didn't finish the post. The drive is simply listed as Unknown device under device manager. 

[BottleneckHunter]

Lol sorry, i guess i was frustrated and didn't finish the post. The drive is simply listed as Unknown device under device manager. 

try right clicking it and try finding a driver or something,

[Dante0217]

try right clicking it and try finding a driver or something,

I have tried updating the driver but from my own research it shows that Hard Drives don't usually come with drivers, it relies on a controller. 

[BottleneckHunter]

I have tried updating the driver but from my own research it shows that Hard Drives don't usually come with drivers, it relies on a controller. 

your right but hey technology is retarded sometimes....

[atrash]

go to Disk Management and check to see if the hdd is detected or not. If yes,proceed to format it.

[Dante0217]

go to Disk Management and check to see if the hdd is detected or not. If yes,proceed to format it.

Disk Management tells me that the disk is not initialized, also when i try to initialize it MBR or GPT it gives me incorrect function error. Initialize disk on the right click menu is grayed out. 

[atrash]

Dante0217, on 14 Apr 2014 - 2:34 PM, said:

Disk Management tells me that the disk is not initialized, also when i try to initialize it MBR or GPT it gives me incorrect function error. Initialize disk on the right click menu is grayed out. 

 

can you create a new small partition on that drive?and then try to initialize it again.

[ross06187]

can you create a new small partition on that drive?and then try to initialize it again.

 

 

@Dante0217 DO NOT format or make partitions is you want any chance of recovering data from the drive. 

 

Once you chnage the data on the disk, that data is gone.

 

 

It should be as simple as plunging in the disk to a sata and it working unless the drive has hard ware level encryption.  set on the original bios then the disk is just a large paper weight.

 

in the picture the sata cable does not look to be on fully.

 

you should try the disk in anther pc.

[Dante0217]

@Dante0217 DO NOT format or make partitions is you want any chance of recovering data from the drive. 

 

Once you chnage the data on the disk, that data is gone.

 

 

It should be as simple as plunging in the disk to a sata and it working unless the drive has hard ware level encryption.  set on the original bios then the disk is just a large paper weight.

 

in the picture the sata cable does not look to be on fully.

 

you should try the disk in anther pc.

i will try to load it up on another PC, i moved the cable slightly to be able to take the picture and then replaced the cable. Thanks for the heads up on the formatting though, I'm sure death from my wife would have been painful had those pictures been deleted