I know this is a long shot, but do any of you know about the Western Digital 0132 (abort command)? Guy came home to a BSOD and a not NTLR no boot. He has some improtant work stuff on the drive that he needs to recover. The 80 gig drive only shows 8. something gigs on the POST.

I know this is scketchy info, if you have any ideas I will get his butt registered here! This is from another website I go to.

Thanks for your time.

E

Greetings, fellow technophiles.

I am the owner of the hard drive in question. Allow me to delineate a few spare details.

The following is copy/pasted from the aforementioned other board, edited for language's sake, as
that particular group censors all of two words. I'll keep it clean here in standard posting, too.

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I came home a few nights back to a BSOD.
I followed through with standard process by rebooting with intentions of Safe Mode diagnostic.
I was not too pleased to see "NTLDR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."

Great.

So I sleep on it. I wake up the next day prepared to do a rescue install of XP-MCE. Guess what? No primary master!
So beautiful, it was . . . stimulating.
I **** with the BIOS and drive arrangement long enough to force recognition. The kicker is that it sees an 8.4gb drive instead of the 40gb it actually is. Yay!

Western Digital's diagnostic programs say that the cable is not securely plugged in. I guarantee you they're snug as a New York subway at rush hour.

So. . .I've tried near blasted everything I can think of, short of putting the drive in my freezer (a rumored last resort). I tapped it with the butt of a screwdriver. Made me feel like Yoda smacking R2-D2 around. Nothing.

There's some highly important business artwork and paperwork I'd REALLY like to retrieve. That's a good 80 to 120 hours of work I cannot duplicate. My preferred programs and security stuff also reside there. It's quite irritating, to say the least.
The drive is not making any noises that would indicate a head crash. It spins up and initializes. It just refuses to be seen at the correct size. I'm now researching reasons the cable test would run afoul. Not having much luck. If anyone can dig up how to fix Error 0132 on a Western Digital hard drive by conventional and cheap means, I'll owe you a complete diagnostic, clean-up, and optimization.

Geh. . . .

EDIT---I found out what 0132 means: "Command aborted."
I'm going to try to use an older version of their diagnostics.
Here's hoping!

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I found an older version of DLGDIAG.exe, which spit the error codes of 210 and 458 at me.

210 - The drive's internal self-test reported unrepairable errors. Drive should be replaced.

458 - Identified Data Not Found. Ten or more instances of information on data positioning and location could not be found. Drive should be replaced.

Ain't THAT a wench? *sigh* Time to price professional data recovery and explore finance options. . .

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It was at this point E posted a mention of you folks to me. I figured some spare details might assist any shadetree mechanics that might be available. Any help at this point is insanely appreciated.
Condolences and funeral recommendations are also welcome if a successful conclusion cannot be reached.

I might as well beat Thrasher to this:
Welcome to PimpRig, ThereIsNoBo! Thrasher2 should be along shortly in order to roll out the red carpet.

...have no help for you, sadly! But, you definitely came to the right place to find help (most of the time).

All I can suggest is using a data recovery service it the data is that important. You would have to decide if the cost is justified.
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I would try taking that HD to another PC and use it as Slave and get your info off...Befor anything happens.

Perfect first post, eh?
Well! I can dig that.

I do have one other system to cable the drive up to. Lord and the Fates willing, it'll take on there so
I can do some form of backup, at least.

Appreciation for the props, etc.
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Well, after exhausting a couple of other avenues, I can safely say that Time of Death is recorded at 8/5/05 at 5pm.

I'll miss the poor piece of junk.

i cant remeber the name of the software... when i get home tonght ill post it....

do me a favor.... u say your drive is dead...

FORMAT it...

then hook it into another machine

use the software i send you...

and recover your files.!!!

You ran the Diagnostic test and got those messages. The drive should have a date on it. Most WD drives are good for 3 years. I would email or call WD Tech support if your within 3 years, it will get you a new drive at least.

Edit: And for less than $50 you can get a 16X DVD Burner. Dics's can be had for less than 50 cents apiece and hold 4.7 GB (4.3 actually). Make 2 backup's and never lose anything again.

Quote: Originally Posted by THRiLL KiLL i cant remeber the name of the software... when i get home tonght ill post it.... do me a favor.... u say your drive is dead... FORMAT it... then hook it into another machine use the software i send you... and recover your files.!!!

Is it Winternals? It has recovered the unrecoverable for me in the past. The trial version can be found here. I have the full version myself and let me tell you...It is a lifesaver.

Edit: No its not Winternals he is talking about... Winternals boots off a CD. You would need a spare hard drive to recover.

I have a DVD burner. I'm just too lame to back things up, I suppose.
Personal faults happen.

The drive is dated in August of '01, so it's a hair past warranty.

My curiosity is this: if the physical geometry cannot be recognized by several different PCs, how can a format and recovery save anything without corrupting the structure of said data?
Seeing that the drive fails its own self test (error 210), wouldn't that throw everything quite asunder?

I don't know if I posted the definition of error 458, so here it is.

Quote: Originally Posted by Western Digital Support Identified Data Not Found. Ten or more instances of information on data positioning and location could not be found. Drive should be replaced.

name of that program is File Scavanger...

i had a 250 gb that only showed 100gb ... it took 4 formats to get all the info off...

when you delete a file or format your hdd... you dont lose the data.... it just gets marked usable...


the only time its gone is when you write new infromation over the deleted stuff... do a uncondtional format ...

Quote: Originally Posted by THRiLL KiLL name of that program is File Scavanger... i had a 250 gb that only showed 100gb ... it took 4 formats to get all the info off... when you delete a file or format your hdd... you dont lose the data.... it just gets marked usable... the only time its gone is when you write new infromation over the deleted stuff... do a uncondtional format ...

Ah yes...I too have used that one...Very good at recovering data as well.

If your scared of formatting and then trying to recover your data, try Winternals and a spare HD(formatted for windows). The only problem is if you are reading from a corrupted drive, there is a strong possibility your writing corrupted files to the spare.

File Scavenger.

I will definitely lend this idea an eye.

Much appreciation for the suggestion.
Mad props out the wazoo if it works.

Danke!

If your NTLDR is corrupted, wouldn't the winxp recovery cd and the "/fix mbr" command fix it?

Sorry If I didn't understand your problem.

Had this exact same problem with a WD HDD a while back... ended up being that a few of the IDE pins were blown. You're gonna have to end up RMA'ing that bad boy.

Yay for toasted pins.


So much for having a 3/4s decent surge box.
Still have yet to install/attempt File Scavenger. Tuesday's my next day off work, so I'm thinking I'll work it in then.

The blown pins had nothing to do with a surge... the pins just died according to WD.