WD200BB WD Caviar - 20 Gb Western Digital Hard Drive Data Recovery

Donald M.
Silver Spring, Maryland United States

I took this drive out of my old computer and put it into a new computer I had purchased. I wanted to then transfer the data to the new hard drive. But the new computer would not read the hard drive files (it did recognize the presence of the drive, but it would not read it). So I then reinstalled the drive back into the old computer and it would not boot up, giving me an error saying 'No OS'. There was also a message about problems with the FAT. I tried to get it to boot up with various recovery disks, but it would not work. I could access the drive with DOS and do a 'dir' listing, but 'Scanreg' just caused it to crash.

• Thanks for your assistance with this. Great job!
  Sincerely,
  Don

Chet K.
Belleville, IL USA

This drive was installed as primary slave. No abnormal noises. One day on boot up got "Primary Slave Hard Drive Failure" Bios recognizes the drive but it is not accessible with DOS or Windows programs. Western Digital diagnostics returns S.M.A.R.T. error code 0159 (defective drive, replace). I did try using Get Data Back software. Get Data Back recognized the drive from Windows but did not recovery any data.

• Expedient, very accurate, effective process.
  Thank you,
  Chet