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Hard drive stopped showing up

  • 09-12-2012 6:54pm
    #1
    Connavar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    It looks like my hard drive may be a gonner.
    I was working away on my pc and suddenly things stopped working correctly(links not opening etc). I rebooted and then noticed that the hard drive wasn't showing up in My Computer, so I went to the bios and saw it wasn't working there either.

    I tried switching the cables with the other working hard drive but still no luck. I can hear it spin a bit on startup, but the bios takes way longer than normal to start and then when it does it is still only showing the one hd.

    Is there any other checks that ye can think of to get it working? If not, any suggestions on a replacement?(around 1tb is loads)

    Thanks


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  • #2
    platinums
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭platinums


    This has happened so many times to me. Sounds like the drive is dead.

    You may have some luck connecting it to a External usb (SATA->USB) adapter. Then trying it out on the computer as a USB device.
    In this instance sometimes the PC just cant boot off it, but it will read the files as a usb device.

    Do you need the data on it?
    Else you can accept its doom and to try and reuse the device (not advisable, as this is usually the beginning of the end, usually.

    I recently had a drive that was not seen in Windows 7 Setup, i was pissed, thought it was a gonner. But some Diskpart Magic revitalised it. The disk died from powering off the comp when it was in use (HDD light flashin)

    The Diskpart process, clean, make active and reformat the drive. You will need to use diskpart in a Recovery Environment. If you dont need the data, I can elaborate on this.

    Edit, Bear in mind, the more you try and boot off you diminish the chances of reading it via USB.


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