Hard drive randomly stopped working.

[Sam Ireland]

So I have a Seagate Barracuda 1TB along side my Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB.. So today when I was using my computer the computer randomly froze up, so after a while of it not responding I pressed the reset button on the front of my computer. After the computer restarted, when it hit the post screen it froze there for about 20 seconds, then continuted to boot (really slowly up to normal). After getting into windows I realised that my Seagate Barracuda was not being detected. Not even the BIOS was detecting it. I really need to know how to fix this, cause I can't fit all of my stuff on my SSD and don't have the money to buy a new hard drive right now.

Hard drive specs:
SATA
Capacity: 1000GB
7200 RPM
Firmware: CC4B
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[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Sam Ireland,

So your system boots slowly now right?
I believe you can take the HDD out and see if the issue persists. If this sorts the slow boot out, then all of this is caused by your failing/failed HDD.

As the HDD is not recognized even by BIOS, I doubt you will be able to access it with software tools. Yet, it will not hurt to try using some data recovery tool.
Apart from that, you can attach the drive with different SATA and power cables, to another SATA port.

If the drive is not recognized by BIOS even after that, then the drive has failed. You can try it on another computer I guess.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

 

[Sam Ireland]

Hi there Sam Ireland,

So your system boots slowly now right?
I believe you can take the HDD out and see if the issue persists. If this sorts the slow boot out, then all of this is caused by your failing/failed HDD.

As the HDD is not recognized even by BIOS, I doubt you will be able to access it with software tools. Yet, it will not hurt to try using some data recovery tool.
Apart from that, you can attach the drive with different SATA and power cables, to another SATA port.

If the drive is not recognized by BIOS even after that, then the drive has failed. You can try it on another computer I guess.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

Yes, removing the hard drive brings the boot speed back up to normal, I have tried putting changing the SATA ports to the one that my SSD is running on and it was still not being detected. Im gonna try this on my old computer and pray that it works.

 

[Sam Ireland]

Hi there Sam Ireland,

So your system boots slowly now right?
I believe you can take the HDD out and see if the issue persists. If this sorts the slow boot out, then all of this is caused by your failing/failed HDD.

As the HDD is not recognized even by BIOS, I doubt you will be able to access it with software tools. Yet, it will not hurt to try using some data recovery tool.
Apart from that, you can attach the drive with different SATA and power cables, to another SATA port.

If the drive is not recognized by BIOS even after that, then the drive has failed. You can try it on another computer I guess.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

Hey, Is there any way I can get the data off of the hard drive, I really need some data off of it but cannot afford any professional recovery.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Did you manage to get it recognized by BIOS?

Well, apart from data recovery company, you can just use some data recovery tools. Yet, in case the drive is not recognized by BIOS, I doubt they would work.
You can try some of them though: https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-recovery-software-tools-2622893

Cheers,
D_Know_WD