Cannot Boot hard drive?

[doskido1]

I was watching Netflix, and all of the sudden, my computer shut off. It rebooted itself after two seconds, and at the bottom right of my screen, there comes up a 9C and an A2 error. I get to a black screen that says, "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key."

I understand that these errors might pertain to the hard drive failing to boot, so I found a USB thumb drive on which I had a memory test installed and booted my computer up with that after having set it to boot first in BIOS. It came up with the memory test, and the memory test started testing my RAM. So, does this narrow it down go a problem with my hard-drive itself?

I unplugged and replugged the SATA cables for my hard drive and motherboard as well as the hard-drive power cable. I can feel that the hard rive is running when I put my hand on it, but it still won't boot.

This hard drive is about five years old now, so I wouldn't think that it would just crap out on me. The HD is a Seagate Barracuda.

Did my hard drive die, or might there be another culprit? Any help is MUCH appreciated!



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[SkyNetRising]

Is your HDD detected in BIOS?
If yes, then boot from windows installation media and run chkdisk on windows and bootloader partitions.

 

[ko888]

It certainly appears that you have an HDD failure.

A failure of a component on the HDD's circuit board may cause the drive to disappear from detection even though the HDD's drive motor is still spinning the platters.

 

[doskido1]

Is your HDD detected in BIOS?
If yes, then boot from windows installation media and run chkdisk on windows and bootloader partitions.

It certainly appears that you have an HDD failure.

A failure of a component on the HDD's circuit board may cause the drive to disappear from detection even though the HDD's drive motor is still spinning the platters.

I take it that there's no hope of recovering any files from the hard drive if that's the case.

 

[doskido1]

Is your HDD detected in BIOS?
If yes, then boot from windows installation media and run chkdisk on windows and bootloader partitions.

I have it booted from Windows Installation USB, but I'm not sure how to do the chkdisk thing. I'm not that techy.

 

[SkyNetRising]

First determine if your hdd is being detected. Did you check BIOS?
Well you can do it from windows install media.
Goto Repair my computer/Command prompt and execute commands:

• 
  diskpart
  list disk
  list volume

list disk - will show detected disks
list volume - will show partitions and their associated letters
Run chkdsk this way (replace x: with volume letter you want to check):

• 
  chkdsk x: /f

 

[ko888]

Is your HDD detected in BIOS?
If yes, then boot from windows installation media and run chkdisk on windows and bootloader partitions.

It certainly appears that you have an HDD failure.

A failure of a component on the HDD's circuit board may cause the drive to disappear from detection even though the HDD's drive motor is still spinning the platters.

I take it that there's no hope of recovering any files from the hard drive if that's the case.

There's hope if you're willing to pay a data recovery specialist to do it. It doesn't come cheap. It requires the donation of the same model circuit board from a working HDD.