Big Hard Disk Problem...Pls help me soon :(

[smartdeep]

I just bought a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB today..I was having Samsung 40GB hardisk...I told the engineer in d shop to make 160GB hardisk primary master and 40GB hard disk primary slave....He put jumpher in 160GB at 1st pin and in 40GB put the jumpher at 2nd pin...I checked there my both the hardisk got detected...while OS was in 40GB samsung hardisk as primary slave and an empty 160GB seagate hardisk as primary master.

when i started my PC here at home...n was thinking to install windows xp on new 160GB harddisk and move all my data frm 40GB to new hard disk...and then make 40GB hard disk as a single partition by deleting old partitions...

But I was shocked wen double clicked my F: of 8GB partition on 40GB hard disk...it displays the messge..."Disk is not formated.Format it now? Yes No"
...i clicked No....i was wondering wats this now???

as i dont know much abt bad sectors....i tried to recover my data frm this partition...getdata back for NTFS ...but was in vain....Getdataback shows lotts of error...n finally failed....

Then i tried to format the partion...but windows failed in formating it...displaying message...formatting failed...then frm disk management i deleted this extended logical F: ...and again started formatting frm there...after 40% of formatting it rapidly goes to 100% n finally displayed me a msg...formatting failed again

i tried CHKDSK F: /R ,,,,but it displays msg
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.

i tried to use HDD Regenerator, victoria etc....but no1 is detecting that F: partition.... infact these s/w displayed only 31GB capacity of Samsung hard disk...instead that it was of 37.31GB capacity as displayed in disk management..... but here 1 thing again very surprising.....

F: is of 7.81GB ....so if is damaged....then the total capcity shud be (37.31-7.81) = 29.5GB ...but above s/w shows it of 31GB....??? wats this now??

plssssssssssss help me ...wat to do....i did not installed windows OS on new 160GB hard disk and moved data frm old hard disk to the new hard disk ...because of this problem....plssss help wat is actually this problem???hw to resolve it???? do i install windows on new 160GB hardisk and then delete all the partitions on 40GB hardisk???do after that when reformating the 40GB harddisk as single partion ...that F: will be recovered and in turn ...37.31GB single partition ...can be gained????

plsss reply me soon....

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[smartdeep]

plsss reply me anybody soon...plsss

[unidentified]

Bad Sectors = Time for New Hard drive

There is no other option. Unless you would want to invest huge sum of amount for recovering data from service centers.

[SecRecy]

See this threads of Hard Disk Problem : http://forums.techarena.in/tags/index.php/hard-disk/

[smartdeep]

Finally...i installed windows on new seagate 160gb HDD after dat transfered all data frm old samsung 40gb HDD to new seagate HDD using windows of seagate HDD ....then i deleted all the partitions on old HDD including the problematic extended logical drive and windows partion.....then reformatted all the disk as a single partion and gained my lost 7.8gb space finally

but lost my 5gb data on dat old problematic partition ....neway thnk god...nt much wrried of data loss....coz they all r multimedia data ...nt ne imp data ... thought dat was a collection of arnd 2yr or so

neway thnks 2 all 4 ur helps