Can't recover HD files!

[blackice]

can you hear the hard drive spinning up when you try to click on it? usually i/o problems are either a physical failure with the drive or can be a corrupted mft (master file table on an ntfs drive) or just corrupted files in general. run scan disk from the command line with the /f option on both drives and see if you can get it to repair the issues.

[lil_dcb7]

I hate to tell you this man, but I think all your stuff is done for. I had the SAME exact problem, and what ended up happening was I corrupted my hard drive making them pretty much useless.

Same Exact symptoms. The hard drive was there in the Explorer, but every time i would try to access it, it would give me the error: "You do not have sufficient access privileges. Please contact your system administrator" or "There is no disk in drive "X" "

They may be corrupt man.

Im sharing this so you dont have to waste a lot of your time and possibly money.

If the content on those hard disks are extremely valuable. You can take them in some where and they can recover the data, platter by platter, but that will be pretty expensive..

Good luck man. I really hope all turns out for the best. I know how it feels, and it completely sucks.

[mj213]

If the operating system is giving you an error other than 'protected' or 'format not recognized', you probably won't be able to rescue the data within the operating system.

An I/O error usually indicates that the operating system is not able to communicate with the device. If you can download a S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic program (each hard drive manufacturer has it's own diagnostic application usually available for download on their website), it will allow you to create a boot diskette, and run a self test on the drive/drives. What I would suggest is trying each of the 2 drives in question separately, so you can get an accurate response without wondering what drive you're testing. It will check for read tests, write tests, memory tests, controller test, autosensing, and a few other tests to make sure the drive is physically functioning properly. If they are, then you COULD try them on another machine. Sometimes (vendor PCs like Dell, Gateway, etc) power supplies are underrated, and can cause drive functionality problems - try disconnecting your cd drives, and only put one of the "bad" drives in at a time. See if it makes a difference (if you don't have access to another PC to test them in).

The only thing I can suggest (though it tends to be expensive) is if you really NEED the data, you can take them to a drive recovery shop (may have to mail them) such as Drive Savers. They can recover most data from drives that have been irrepairably damaged.

Also, check the warranty on each drive. You may be entitled to a free replacement (better than nothing, right?).

If I think of anything else, I'll let you know. Good luck!

[mj213]

Same Exact symptoms. The hard drive was there in the Explorer, but every time i would try to access it, it would give me the error: "You do not have sufficient access privileges. Please contact your system administrator.. "

This is almost always related to having password assignments to user accounts, thus creating a security encryption of sorts. In other words, your operating system recognizes the files have a user access restriction to them, though it cannot validate them because it is from a previous installation of windows.