Currently, my desktop PC has 3 drives in it and five partitions.
C:\ and E:\ are on Drive X (250GB, running right as rain).
F:\ is on Drive Y (70GB spare drive that I started putting downloads on).
H:\ and I:\ are on Drive Y (500GB, barely two month old Seagate drive).
C:\ is boot and essential programs.
E:\ is mainly for video games
F:\ is downloads
H:\ is more video games
I:\ is a Win7 dual boot partition
Drive Y is the troublemaker. It was working fine until I thought my boot drive was clicking. Due to my fucking archaic tower, I had to take out all three drives to get at my boot drive. I somehow fucked something up because Drive Y no longer shows up. It also rapes my system with floods of errors about how temporary data from the H:\ and I:\ Partitions could not be found and are therefore lost. Once these errors have finished popping up, I can use my system as normal, but doing anything which may show the drive (Opening explorer, Acronis Disk Director, etc) causes another flood of errors.
Again, once I clear the errors I can continue using my system, but neither of the partitions show up in any programs. The drive shows up under device manager, but you can't get any information on the volumes.
When taken out of the PC and plugged in to my laptop via a SATA to USB Cable,the drive fluctuates between being fully accessible and only showing the root folders of I:\. It also fails to show up in Gparted when I boot from an Xubuntu Live CD.
I just disabled the drive in Device Manager and It spins up, but no longer shows up in anything, not even the device manager.
Not really sure what to do next. I believe it's the Win7 partition that's causing the trouble and what I've sort of been aiming to do is format it and merge the two partitions on Drive Y back in to one. Not really sure if that's exactly the right direction to go though.
So, what should I do next?
[editline]04:13PM[/editline]
Plugged in to laptop again via USB, I:\ is refusing to format. Been on 0% for at least 10 minutes.
The hard drive could be shot, you might want to try running a chkdsk with the recover damaged sectors box checked.
If that doesn't work, the hard drives probably dead, or near it.
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