Hard Drive Troubleshooting

[bryce_hiller]

So I'm trying to fix my buddy's laptop. He kept getting the error "Reboot and select proper Boot Device." Went into BIOS and selected proper drive. Still didn't work. Tried repairing windows, didn't work. Tried clean install, and it keeps failing. I've deleted all partitions, reformatted, etc. I took out the drive and put it in my desktop, as a slave. It's recognizing his drive after I boot from my SSD, and I can open it and see all installation folders, so it isn't just dead. It will not boot from his HDD in my PC. What am I missing? I've tried both windows 8.1 and windows 10.

 

[androbourne]

Just because you can open files/folders on the drive doesn't mean there isnt corruption in partitions on the disk. It just means the sectors you are access may not be corrupted. Put the drive back in your PC as a secondary disk and download something like WD Lifeguard. Run an extended DIAG on it. (not the short version) and post back results.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello bryce_hiller, what brand is the HDD? If it is a Seagate you can run our free Seatools software to test it. Recommendation is to use the established testing software form the manufacture as that will give you the most accurate results.

 

[bryce_hiller]

Just because you can open files/folders on the drive doesn't mean there isnt corruption in partitions on the disk. It just means the sectors you are access may not be corrupted. Put the drive back in your PC as a secondary disk and download something like WD Lifeguard. Run an extended DIAG on it. (not the short version) and post back results.

Thanks! I'm running HDTune, and so far, I'm at 50% damaged blocks. Probably means the drive is caput?

 

[androbourne]

Just because you can open files/folders on the drive doesn't mean there isnt corruption in partitions on the disk. It just means the sectors you are access may not be corrupted. Put the drive back in your PC as a secondary disk and download something like WD Lifeguard. Run an extended DIAG on it. (not the short version) and post back results.

Thanks! I'm running HDTune, and so far, I'm at 50% damaged blocks. Probably means the drive is caput?

Yes. That doesn't sounds good at all. I wouldn't even try to run a repair. Replace the drive if its showing that many corruptions!

Good news is it sounds like you can access most important files/folders so I'd copy that off now onto a good drive so you can restore it later to your new hard drive.