HDD died; recovery possible?

[Wadair]

Model is Seagate 2TB HDD.

No clue what happened but my HDD seems to have died.
It's been acting up for a few days now and today after a reboot can't get it to work no more.

On a few lucky times I can see it on boot menu as I restart, but I can't load into Windows with that (Windows on SSD).

Seems like I can only get into Windows when it fails to find HDD.
For a while and currently HDD is like trying to read something, but fails, doing faint beepy and squeaky noises once in a while.


Is there anything I can do to recover some files?

 

[i7Baby]

Check it with Seatools. Do a Checkdisk with repair.

Try MiniTool or EaseUs for file recovery. Else use data recovery specialist (hundreds of dollars)

 

[USAFRet]

This is where you retrieve your data from your backup.
Or the stuff that he said above.

 

[IAmTheTofu]

In the future, I'd lean more towards Western Digital's hard drives. They fail less and are more reliable.

 

[Wadair]

Already did checkdisk with repair, didn't help.
And SeaTools is somewhat useless as it won't recognize my HDD any longer, no?

Reckon gotta start doing frequent backups from here on out as this seems like a lost case.
What WD HDD I should get? Preferably another 2TB one.

 

[i7Baby]

I'm happy with my Seagate Barracuda 2tb. Or get a WD Black 2TB.

 

[Wadair]

Although he's an official WD representative others vouched for WD Black as well on this topic.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2600773/2tb-internal-hard-drive.html#15634288

Seems like I'll be going with that.
Cheers.