TL;DR: May have bricked HDD, Sometimes shows up in Disk Manager, but doesn't inicialize or format propely. Any way to fix or should I get a pro to do this?
Okay here's how I bricked it.
So I have this laptop with a broken screen, I can only see a 1/3 of it. I turn it on, it says something about "checking the BIOS" (again couldn't see it), so I just click Enter and it goes blank.
Reboot it, spam Delete to get what I thought was the BIOS, now I know it was a system restore. I accidentally click that, it restarts and does the restore, but it was taking too long and I feared I was losing data, so I force shut down my pc. Mistake #1.
I put the hard drive on an enclosure, plug it to another pc, it shows up, but I can't access the files from Users/[username]. Also some folders called "TEMP-DESKTOP-[desktopcode]" are there, never seen that before.
Windows says it has a problem. I click on the notification to try and fix it. Does nothing, 0% all the time.
I use this tool, HDDLLF, to do a quick format. Can't do it, can't "connect" to it even though it can read it. I do a full format, it shows some errors, ignores them, goes up to 30%, freezes.
I force close HDDLLF, run it again, another quick format, it works, but then I try to install Win 10 on my laptop, and it doesn't even show up.
So now I'm here with my drive on the enclosure again, where sometimes (after restarting my pc) it detects my drive but I can't format or even inicialize it on Disk Manager, but most times it hangs Disk Manager or even HDDLLF.
Are there any tools to help me fix this or have I done goofed too much and should send this to a pro?
Okay here's how I bricked it.
So I have this laptop with a broken screen, I can only see a 1/3 of it. I turn it on, it says something about "checking the BIOS" (again couldn't see it), so I just click Enter and it goes blank.
Reboot it, spam Delete to get what I thought was the BIOS, now I know it was a system restore. I accidentally click that, it restarts and does the restore, but it was taking too long and I feared I was losing data, so I force shut down my pc. Mistake #1.
I put the hard drive on an enclosure, plug it to another pc, it shows up, but I can't access the files from Users/[username]. Also some folders called "TEMP-DESKTOP-[desktopcode]" are there, never seen that before.
Windows says it has a problem. I click on the notification to try and fix it. Does nothing, 0% all the time.
I use this tool, HDDLLF, to do a quick format. Can't do it, can't "connect" to it even though it can read it. I do a full format, it shows some errors, ignores them, goes up to 30%, freezes.
I force close HDDLLF, run it again, another quick format, it works, but then I try to install Win 10 on my laptop, and it doesn't even show up.
So now I'm here with my drive on the enclosure again, where sometimes (after restarting my pc) it detects my drive but I can't format or even inicialize it on Disk Manager, but most times it hangs Disk Manager or even HDDLLF.
Are there any tools to help me fix this or have I done goofed too much and should send this to a pro?
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