When you try to initialize hard disk i/o device error.

I'm under the home edition of windows vista with service pack 1. I use an eMachine. I have an AMD athlon processor 2.60 Ghz. Recently, I connected a western digital 250 GB hard drive which has already been used in my old xbox. I was hoping not to have to lose all the data currently on the disk, but it is not as important as the implementation for storage on my computer. The WD drive shows in both the BIOS and in my computer management, but not in my computer. After research, I found that I needed initialize and then configure the partitions on the disk. When I try to initialize the drive however, I get the I/o device error. I tried to enter the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and then changin settings to PIO only, then on DMA. It does not say if Transfer Mode. I wonder if I miss something, or maybe if there is a way to format the drive in the hope that it will initialize without problem? Or if all goes well, there's just something that I'm missing now and I won't have to format the drive?

If the drive is not recognized by other computers, that's the case, it is dead or the drive itself is dead, or both. Contact Western Digital for methods of data recovery if the drive is still under warranty. Alternatively, if the drive is out of warranty, break the case and put the drive in a different disk enclosure. This answer if it is just the case of WD failed. If you're lucky, and that this is the case, just keep the drive within the confines of substitute.

OTOH, if the drive is not detected even in another forum, then it is dead. If data is critical and expense is not a problem, to recover the data, the reader should be sent to a professional data recovery company. It is a fairly expensive step. I use savers by car . MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

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