I have a 2TB Seagate barracuda ( green label ) that "suddenly stopped working".
I was installing farcry 5 on it from UPLAY while browsing in the folders organizing stuff on the disk itself and on my 2nd screen i see an error pop up on UPLAY saying it could'nt access the drive anymore.
I go back to "browsing" on the disk to check if I didn't delete the path or anything and... it was gone from the explorer. Gone from "My PC", gone from disk partition manager. Restart pc, nothing, restart again, check bios, not there either. I then try to diagnose it physically but here's what I mean by the quote unquote "stopped working" ... is that I can actually faintly hear starting up like it would normally do... not noticeable unless you put your ear on it so its not loud or anything... no clicking, no whining, no bzzt, no grrrr brrr prrr, nothing out of the ordinary what so ever. When I touch it, I can feel it working as it normally would...
But it doesn't appear in bios, crystal disk info, disk part or anything I tried.
The physical things I tried are :
multiple sata cables
multiple sata ports
a USB drive pocket
PCI3.0 sata extention card.
They all worked fine on my 500gb 860evo but no dice on the Seagate
Its about a year old and had a couple games on it but mostly used for the few movies/series. I also have a plex server for stuff that isn't stream-able in Canada via other services and backups of documents/downloads/app data for game saves and family souvenir Id like to keep!!
I don't know much about hard drive but I suspect the sata port might be damaged/broken?
I've never heard of a drive that died without symptoms... they usually go balistic with wiery noises or dead silent... can't seem to find anything on that on Google either...
How can I diagnose further? Is there a tell that I can find by opening it? Is there a software that can detect a drive even if it doesn't appear in bios?
If you need more info just ask!
I was installing farcry 5 on it from UPLAY while browsing in the folders organizing stuff on the disk itself and on my 2nd screen i see an error pop up on UPLAY saying it could'nt access the drive anymore.
I go back to "browsing" on the disk to check if I didn't delete the path or anything and... it was gone from the explorer. Gone from "My PC", gone from disk partition manager. Restart pc, nothing, restart again, check bios, not there either. I then try to diagnose it physically but here's what I mean by the quote unquote "stopped working" ... is that I can actually faintly hear starting up like it would normally do... not noticeable unless you put your ear on it so its not loud or anything... no clicking, no whining, no bzzt, no grrrr brrr prrr, nothing out of the ordinary what so ever. When I touch it, I can feel it working as it normally would...
But it doesn't appear in bios, crystal disk info, disk part or anything I tried.
The physical things I tried are :
multiple sata cables
multiple sata ports
a USB drive pocket
PCI3.0 sata extention card.
They all worked fine on my 500gb 860evo but no dice on the Seagate
Its about a year old and had a couple games on it but mostly used for the few movies/series. I also have a plex server for stuff that isn't stream-able in Canada via other services and backups of documents/downloads/app data for game saves and family souvenir Id like to keep!!
I don't know much about hard drive but I suspect the sata port might be damaged/broken?
I've never heard of a drive that died without symptoms... they usually go balistic with wiery noises or dead silent... can't seem to find anything on that on Google either...
How can I diagnose further? Is there a tell that I can find by opening it? Is there a software that can detect a drive even if it doesn't appear in bios?
If you need more info just ask!
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