got virus = harddrive gone

[Nexus]

Hi..

so..: 140 gb SERIAL ATA (D) harddrive external is not found in bios, not in windows.

what happened?:

got virus!... it was SIS 919 BOOTROM and it I got lots of trouble! Crashed hard!

would not reboot. could not boot up on startup disk..

said disk io error... all versions of boot disk gave me

disk io error.

so put partion magic emergency boot disk in....it worked allowing

me to put C: back to fat32 the same as it was... seemed to work.

But boot up to hard drive failed but

thats when bios stopped seeing hard drive.

I have now used all diagnostics available to me to no avail.

updated bios to make sure.

put in another hard drive and it booted perfectly.

Got new ribbons, rechecked jumpers and pins.

used maxtor hard drive utilities to boot up computer

.. it found the hard drive and brought up these errors.

smart enable command failure,

bios extension support failed,

partition information read failure,

ERROR CODE S01

drive recal test failed

smart disable function failed

ERROR CODE UK0E02

ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS..

LBA 0 BLOCKS 0 HEADS 16 SPT 63

MAXIMUM LBA 0

CONGRADULATIONS HARD DRIVE IS NOW ERROR FREE AND

RECERTIFIED.

Bios does not see hard drive, cannot use Fdisk or

Fdisk /mbr cannot put sys files onto hard drisk.

used debug to remove all hard drive info..

used debug to remove all dos partitions

used debug to remove all non dos partitions and clean

hard drive completely.

I am determined but as you can tell I really do not

know what to do...

I do not know how to adjust in bios to detect the drive.

ANY help would be so appreciated...

cannot get it

back on.

nigga stole my drive

[Gorion]

ownd~

edit: hmm, i guess you want to get your data back.. or else you can do a low-level format..

[Nexus]

ownd~

edit: hmm, i guess you want to get your data back.. or else you can do a low-level format..

yeah.. I think I had a boot sector virus

big chanse my drive FAILED?

[Gorion]

boot sector virus.. for what year is your hardware :S cause your bios protects that boot sector..

i think your drive just failed, it happens.

if you want your data back, there are programs which can get the data, (without windows offcourse) but i don't know any of those, i am sure the programs are out there, because there are professional companies who do such things (get lost data back)

[Psyshokiller]

O&O offers solution for recovering data. Guess it's not hard to find on google.

[-HP-]

SATA1 HDD's sucks man!

I had the same problem, and a friend of mine who had the same problem too!

One day, the computer worked fine, the next day the BIOS did detected the HDD, but It doens't appear on the Windows drives list, neither in Windows Device manager... Like I said, this seems to be a SATA1 usual problem.

I never heard anyone having any problems like this with SATA2 HDD's though, and I hope I never do, coz I just bought a 320gb SATA2

There are ALOT of programs to recover data, maybe too much of them... maybe because none of them fucking work... correctly! Still, if you wanna give it a shot, I uploaded some file/hdd recover apps's, here, have fun... :roll:

http://www.helderpinto.com/RecoverTools.rar