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Also hopefully if it is a firmware issue the firmware that's damaged is not the unique unfixable firmware, but rather something that can be fixed by specialized equipment, if it is a firmware issue

The disk did not appear in disk management whatsoever my main theory is some sort of firmware issue atm, so I sent it to data recovery, I will keep this thread posted on if its successful

yeah. How sad it would be if its unrecoverable... I was going to back it up the day before my PC failed but got busy and pushed it back a day Always do em asap

man thats scary

hopefully, I heard this could be caused by bad sectors on the platter, its a new drive so I doubt it degraded much, but maybe whatever killed my PC caused the HDD to develop some bad sectors?

sounds like good news, means the heads are fine and reading

absolutely

Update: Just called a data recovery pro, seems to be a firmware issue caused by bad sectors, recovery will depend on what firmware was targeted, I hope for the best

Unfortunately, I dont have any at this moment but want to provide them soon. But basically, it shows up in bios completely normally (4 tb, model name) But in windows, nothing, absolutely nothing, as if it were not even plugged in

Yes! it shows up as completely normal in BIOS, correct model, capacity number etc. Where is this information stored on a hard drive? In a BIOS chip?

Wouldnt a PCB issue manifest in the drive not even spinning at all? It spins, bios even reads it, but windows doesn't detect it whatsoever Edit: nevermind, missed your second part

4tb seagate baracuda. After my pc stopped working, maybe due to a bad PSU, bad motherboard, I don't know, I got my hard drives all removed and my two SSDs seem fine, but my 4tb Seagate baracuda HDD, no windows installed on it just a secondary internal hard drive, the one with lots of important...

I never was physical with the drive at all, Always super delicate with it and it was always in its casing, never dropped it or anything, my moeny's on an electrical issue with the PCB board

I would also like to clarify the drive was working completely fine when it was being read on the motherboard before the power supply unit issue, so I have no idea if my PC will pick it up if used in the motherboard as per usual until I get that PSU But given this adapter should handle 3.5"...

yes