Wahh HDD died :(

Elyzion · 5th November 2009, 10:58 AM

My 1tb hdd just died

It was working perfectly fine, was downloading torrents onto it, had a whole heap of anime and tv shows. Watched a film and then restarted my computer, and it no longer detects it at all.

Booted up into vista and ubuntu, it doesn't detect there either

(Win7 is primary os)

I donno what to doooooooooo

tobes · 5th November 2009, 11:30 AM

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_the_duke_ · 5th November 2009, 11:34 AM

Luck you had a good backup process in place.

rowan194 · 5th November 2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by _the_duke_

Luck you had a good backup process in place.

Oooh, that's COLD!

(But so right... HDs will fail. There is no question.)

da_neural · 5th November 2009, 11:48 AM

Shit to hear man, but ALWAYS do a backup I've learnt the hardway too many times! Now I backup my data in 3 different locations.

1 - Different HDD on the PC
2- External HDD
3- NAS

Rampage101 · 5th November 2009, 11:48 AM

Its not a Seagate is it? Several models had a firmware issue.

greenhawk · 5th November 2009, 12:02 PM

is the drive still seen in the bios? if so it might just be a issue with the partition being lost.

otherwise, it does become harder to get the data back.

with the seagates and their firmware issue, not sure if a different board would help or not.

Elyzion · 5th November 2009, 1:15 PM

I backup everything, its just i use that hdd to download on to, i haven't sorted all the stuff on it for about 4 months cos i haven't had time.

The drive is still seen in bios. But its not in the disk manager so i can't even see if its not initialized or anything.

Yes it's a Segate 1tb hdd. About 5 months old.

Going to get an external enclosure today see if i can see it with that.

qwertylesh · 5th November 2009, 1:17 PM

see if its a firmware affected disk *points to end of sig*

if it is and if the BIOS is really detecting it, you may be in luck.
I was under the impression that once the affected models bricked though that they stopped detecting altogether, so In that case it could be that a diode has popped on the PCB or the reader head of the disk has failed or the motor or something, which is no good.

Elyzion · 5th November 2009, 1:25 PM

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Originally Posted by qwertylesh

see if its a firmware affected disk *points to end of sig*

if it is and if the BIOS is really detecting it, you may be in luck.
I was under the impression that once the affected models bricked though that they stopped detecting altogether, so In that case it could be that a diode has popped on the PCB or the reader head of the disk has failed or the motor or something, which is no good.

SNo Serial number Result Action
1 9VP18NT5 No download available for this serial number. No action required.

If i hold it up to my ear, and move it a bit, it sounds like the head is scraping on the platter. (as in its loose)

It was working perfectly fine untill i reboot my pc tho...

Dezza Bot · 5th November 2009, 1:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Elyzion

had a whole heap of anime and tv shows.

Since you purcahsed these legally you can simply re rip from the original dvds.

If it can't be seen in Windows but seen ok in bios, I'd give an old version of Ghost a try.

<Insert my usual restore from backup comment here>

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elyzion

SNo Serial number Result Action
1 9VP18NT5 No download available for this serial number. No action required.

Check it with the windows version of seatools, it might direct you to a firmware update when the website will not. I'd not recommend trying to update the firmware until you've exhausted other options, as the update will most probably brick the drive anyway, not to mention could void the warranty.

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Originally Posted by Elyzion

If i hold it up to my ear, and move it a bit, it sounds like the head is scraping on the platter. (as in its loose)

That sounds like busted and data gone to me.

Elyzion · 5th November 2009, 1:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezza Bot

That sounds like busted and data gone to me.

Good thing my porn is on another hdd.

The drive is just a temp drive till ive sorted out what ive downloaded.

Cut, that was 600gb of stuff.

Trying to remember what was on the 2nd partition tho. I had put like 10gb of stuff on there but i dont remember what.

Elyzion · 5th November 2009, 2:04 PM

I picked up a couple of my backup drives on my desk and shacked them the same to my ear, and it sounded like this one. Except they work perfectly fine?

Going to remove all drives, except the OS and this one and see if i can get it to see it.

Dezza Bot · 5th November 2009, 2:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Elyzion

I picked up a couple of my backup drives on my desk and shacked them the same to my ear, and it sounded like this one. Except they work perfectly fine?

Yeah that's the problem when you are describing a sound over the Internet.

Elyzion · 5th November 2009, 2:18 PM

Think its time to cut my loses and buy 4x 2tb hdd's. And a 1tb. (leaving my 320 for ubuntu/vista/win7.)

And have 4tb to put shit onto and have a backup to the other 4gb. And the other 1tb i download onto and do nothing else on it.

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greenhawk Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 139	is the drive still seen in the bios? if so it might just be a issue with the partition being lost. otherwise, it does become harder to get the data back. with the seagates and their firmware issue, not sure if a different board would help or not.