well any old IDE drive if defragged, is what killed it !don't feel bad it is on ***** row, for sure. (all are that old)the drive is bad, and when defragged, the critical OS fileswere moved to more dead sectors and killed it more dead. easy as pie.never defrag a IDE PATA drive. its too old , in your case, 17+ years old. hopeless\1999 DRIVE YEAR MADE, a true relic HDD, PATA drive, 40 pin Ribbon connected. no smart tests to run.. testing them is a long hard process ,I say buy a 2010 or newer PC and end it, i3 up.I say list the drive at Guinnessas worlds record on 17 year old drivethat still has 1 good file of 1000'sA real world class event.
is this only a HDD in your hand; no PC there.and running killdisk.exe (free program)fails?>there is no crack of any HDD passwords.in fact that is the #1 goal of such and encryption system.toshiba, has no forum.they tell you there at there web site to go to toms hardware, and not us.we have no password hacks here, in fact are illlegall to do.but you can google Toshiba Password hacks all day,.window is easy hdd pw. impossiblebios PW , toss coin, some easy some very very hard,the newer the PC the harder it is.
Unless you have connector cable to patch the had drive to a computer source, the answer is NO. I suggest you take the drive to a Compact Phone Service as they may have the required hardware to capture the data.
repair parts
Go to the above link. You can get drivers, installation cd, and you may be able to get what you need on flash drive.
Good luck.
Semper Fi,
Z
Hello there,As you are using win xp that means you must be using old desktop computer.It appear to be a issue with hard disk however sometime windows xp itself could be an issue. So try first to Repair window XP following below link without loosing any data in your system and its totally safe to try once :-https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-perform-a-windows-xp-repair-install-2624915Step 2. If you are little bit tech savvy then try to open your tower or back box from screws and then take out the IDE cable connected to hard disk and leave it for 15 minutes and plug in back back to hard disk. then put the tower cover back and power on the system.If issue remain same then I will suggest to contact local vendor to repair hard disk, if you have already taken back up of your data then you no need to worry about repairing hard disk but if you have not taken back then vendor can cost some money to back up your data.
STOP! BEFORE you do *anything* else, BACKUP your important documents, files, drivers and programs... EVERYTHING that is important to you.
Now UPDATE your Windows with the latest UPDATES available!
Is your NEW hard drive LARGER in size? Say your "MASTER" is 200GB (example) and your NEW hard drive is 500GB (another example)?
If it's LARGER, GREAT! Consider a program that will CLONE ALL of your data to your new LARGER hard drive! This way you loose nothing your original MASTER has... you just end up with more space!
There is a FREE CLONE program that I recommend called: EaseUS ToDo. The LINK will also include program and CLONE instructions.
Sometimes a VIDEO TUTOR is more helpful so I include a LINK for that as well.
AFTER your successful CLONE I will recommend that you REMOVE your original drive and put it away so IF something goes WRONG at a later date ~ you can always get back to where you are today!
GOOD LUCK and ENJOY your new hard drive.
Anthony
Use Free Disk Cloning Software to Clone Copy Hard Disk
TUTORIAL:
EaseUS Todo Backup is great tool to make backups on all version of windows
SMART FAILURE PREDICTED on HARD DISK 2: TOSHIBA MK2565GSX-(S1)
Warning: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive.
Press F1 to continue.
What is that problem?? and how to troubleshoot this my computer, the model is neo M1110 noteboke.
Well, you can run a check disk on unit - it will identify bad sectors and try to move contents to another good sector. The bad sector is marked as such and will be unusable in future. But if unsuccessful in reading contents, the program that the files belonged to may become unusable unless you reload it. If they were OS files the computer may become unbootable.
If errors are excessive the program will bail out and not complete the exercise. Generally, when you get bad sectors that is the beginning of the end - you just do not know when unit will die. It might last a long time, might die next day. So you gotta be prepared with backups for the eventuality.
You will need a docking station but you don't say whether the drive has an IDE or Sata connection. IDE being older and sata is current. Your pc will just see it as another device and will let you explore the files and copy them.
Hello,
Try to show hidden files from your OS control panel by the following precedure
1. Press windows + R keys
2. In run window write "control".
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on View tap.
5. Select "Show hidden files, folders and devices"
6. Uncheck all Hide options listed
7. Click apply and OK.
8. Connect your 250gb usb drive
9. Go to file explorer.
I hope this will solve your problem.
Thank and good luck
