- Apr 25, 2016
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Recently my friend called me and said that the hardrive in his laptop stopped working and when he turns on his laptop it says that there is no disk inserted, since I was on a holiday, I told him to get a new hardrive and he had enough knowledge to swap it out and install Windows and told him I will see if I can recover data from it since he said he has a lot of family photos that he never backed up.
When I came back and got the hands on the hardrive, first I plugged in power to see if it spins and I could feel it spinning, so next step I did was plug in SATA cable and see if it gets detected in BIOS and sure it did so then I tried to boot from it and it did but it was stuck on "Preparing automatic repair", I waited about two hours and it was stuck on that screen so I gave up and plugged it in as a third drive into my rig to see if it gets detected by Windows. When I plugged it in and booted up my system, I noticed Windows was loading extremely slowly, I have a Kingston SSD and normally I'm on desktop in 20 seconds but it was about 3 minutes and Windows was still saying "signing in", after the sign in screen I was just stuck on a black screen with cursor, I tried to do Ctl-Alt+Dlt and I was able to get in Task Manager, I went into Performance and I was able to see that my C drive was getting 1% or 2% activity from time to time while my friend's hardrive was at 100% with 0% read and 0% write activity and 0ms latency with occasional 13k latency showing up for split second and every 30 seconds or so, it would show 2kb read speed and then it would go back to 0, I waited about 30 minutes and I was still on black screen so I turned off my PC, un-plugged my friend's hardrive and my PC was back to booting up in 20 seconds.
I don't have a lot of knowledge on how Windows 10 works but I assume it tries to load in all of the content on the plugged in hardrives before loading in? I am unsure what to do next, anyone got any ideas on how I can get the hardrive to atleast 1mb/s so I can copy the files or atleast the hardrive to show it's content? Thanks
When I came back and got the hands on the hardrive, first I plugged in power to see if it spins and I could feel it spinning, so next step I did was plug in SATA cable and see if it gets detected in BIOS and sure it did so then I tried to boot from it and it did but it was stuck on "Preparing automatic repair", I waited about two hours and it was stuck on that screen so I gave up and plugged it in as a third drive into my rig to see if it gets detected by Windows. When I plugged it in and booted up my system, I noticed Windows was loading extremely slowly, I have a Kingston SSD and normally I'm on desktop in 20 seconds but it was about 3 minutes and Windows was still saying "signing in", after the sign in screen I was just stuck on a black screen with cursor, I tried to do Ctl-Alt+Dlt and I was able to get in Task Manager, I went into Performance and I was able to see that my C drive was getting 1% or 2% activity from time to time while my friend's hardrive was at 100% with 0% read and 0% write activity and 0ms latency with occasional 13k latency showing up for split second and every 30 seconds or so, it would show 2kb read speed and then it would go back to 0, I waited about 30 minutes and I was still on black screen so I turned off my PC, un-plugged my friend's hardrive and my PC was back to booting up in 20 seconds.
I don't have a lot of knowledge on how Windows 10 works but I assume it tries to load in all of the content on the plugged in hardrives before loading in? I am unsure what to do next, anyone got any ideas on how I can get the hardrive to atleast 1mb/s so I can copy the files or atleast the hardrive to show it's content? Thanks
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