I have an Acer V3 331 laptop, having issues with an HDD (ST500LT012-1DG142). All of the sudden after a forced shut down the laptop no longer found the HDD (no bootable devide found), while the HDD made a series of beeping noises every 2 seconds. In the BIOS the HDD was not detected at all, however after changing to legacy mode and running the automatic recovery for boot issues the HDD did appear, but I got an error relating to the boot sector (0xc0000098), and for some reason was unable to even boot from the windows installation files on USB drive.
I removed the HDD from the laptop and connected it to a desktop computer. I still get the beeping noises every two seconds on boot up for some time - and no HDD detected in BIOS, although it does show up in device manager. The HDD had some important data I would like to recover. Any ideas what the beeping is about, whether/how the HDD can be fixed, or if it can be sent for repair somewhere?
I removed the HDD from the laptop and connected it to a desktop computer. I still get the beeping noises every two seconds on boot up for some time - and no HDD detected in BIOS, although it does show up in device manager. The HDD had some important data I would like to recover. Any ideas what the beeping is about, whether/how the HDD can be fixed, or if it can be sent for repair somewhere?
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