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I am pretty Sure I do not have one on my motherboard, I have old ones that do laying around but finding all the parts to assemble a computer would be hard as I just moved. Instead, they simply replace the drive with a new one.ĮDIT: This is based on more than 20 years' experience with a major drive manufacturer which is now part of Seagate.Īre you sure you do not have one legacy PATA port? Most motherboards keep one for the CD or just to have one. Repair can only be done by the manufacturer - and they don't do it. Once that seal is broken, the heads WILL crash within a very few seconds of applying power. The case then gets an airtight seal to keep out any contamination. They must be assembled in clean rooms where no dust particles large enough to get between the head and the surface can exist. All hard drives relay on "flying" heads, which fly only a few millionths of an inch above the disk surface. Opening the drive case will destroy the drive. If it's the Molex connector, rectangular with four rather large pins and located at the righthand side of the rear of the drive, it's PATA, otherwise it's SATA. Thanks for your replies, I am making progress and will keep you up to date later this evening.Any1 got experience in repairing these or know if the hard drive is SATA?The easy way to tell whether a drive is PATA or SATA is to examine its power connector. I will then work on the Maxtor drive tonight. When I get home today I hope to see all is better with the desktop unit.
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I initated the full scan and it was still running when I left for work.
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With the note about the registry and getting it scanned, I decided to make another attempt to install Malware-Bytes. I booted it up and then used the UnHide program that was mentioned earlier to recover desktop and folder options. Now I returned the harddrive to the original desktop unit. I also copied off the user profile and burned to DVD too. I was then able to recover all of the files located in the My Documents folder (2.7GB) and burned them to a DVD. So I performed the steps to unhide the files in the folder options as mentioned in one of the responses. It cleaned the virus off or as much as it can. As I mentioned before I removed the harddrive and scanned it in another system. What I have been working on is the desktop unit. When I brought the Maxtor drive home to work on I misplaced the power cable.
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Gentlemen I really appreciate your replies and here is an update of my progress on resolving this issue. We can always get back to that screen easily and quickly. If you need to exit it before waiting for me to respond press the letter q 4 times to exit the program. Let us know what partitions it lists and if they are green or white and if they have * P or D in front of them. Use up/down arrows to select the drive with the missing partitionĪnswer Yes to the question about it being created with Vista or Win7 (even if it was not) When you extract the downloaded file one of the programs isĭouble click it to run it and it will open a black window. That is we look but do not change anything. First we can look to see if we can easily fix it. In order to do it safely without losing your data, you'll have to follow my instructions carefully. Since a partition is not showing that should be, you can try a partition recovery first. I've done it myself and I'm generally pretty careful. Sometimes pulling a USB drive off of a PC when it is not ready (even when it is not in use) can do this.