Hdd stopping windows from booting suddenly

[amoutzas]

sorry for the long post,
But i am trying to be specific because i think this issue is pretty weird
hello there,i had my weirdest experience today with hardware/software stuff which remains completely unexplainable,so i have a hdd 1 TB with stuff inside,files,games,movie files,photos,pretty much everything,i have this disk a long time,like 3,4 years
,it was working perfectly till today,i was playing league of legends(which is on this hdd) and i had some freezes in game for like 2,3 seconds,
but not all the time like randomly 3,4 times on a 30 minute game,
after i finished the game i tried to open PUBG(which is on another ssd)
i opened it and tried to alt-tab and close league client,
everything froze,the whole pc,etc,etc.
I tried restarting,after the restart the windows got stuck at windows logo for ever(windows 7) i booted from the windows cd,
tried repair,nothing,tried safe mode,nothing,
i was like googling for an hour until i decided to format and be done with it,i formated and it wouldnt get unstuck from the logo,
so i tried to boot only the ssd drive with windows and it did
,then i tried to boot ssd+other hard drive and it booted,
then i tried ssd with the hard drive that has the issue now and it wont just boot,
so i ejected the hard drive and now i am using only ssd and the other one which works fine,
also nothing new was installed,moved,created,or happenedon the hdd today,
i was playing for like 5,6 hours and then this happened,
i just downloaded a torrent from a tv-serie as always,nothing suspicious to me
sorry for the long post again,any ideas on what happened?
any suggestions on how to check the integrity of the disk?

 

[panathas]

I'm afraid your HDD is dead. It seems that the HDD's controller has failed and there is nothing you can do to get your files back. The fact that the PC can't boot with the drive plugged in means that the electronics part of the drive is heavily damaged, but likely the platters part (with your data) is intact. The only way to get your files back is to send your HDD to Hard Drive data recovery company. However keep in mind that these recovery services are pretty expensive.

That said there are some things you could do:

1) Try to use another SATA and power cable for the HDD. Check if it changes anything.
2)Remove all other drives, plug in only the bad HDD and check if it shows up in the UEFI/BIOS. If it doesn't show up then things aren't looking good.
2)Now if it does show up in the BIOS, unplug it, plug in the OS SSD, boot the system and once windows has finished loading try to plug in the bad HDD. There is a pretty small chance that this will work though but if you are able to access it transfer every important file that you may have. Good luck.

 

[amoutzas]

I'm afraid your HDD is dead. It seems that the HDD's controller has failed and there is nothing you can do to get your files back. The fact that the PC can't boot with the drive plugged in means that the electronics part of the drive is heavily damaged, but likely the platters part (with your data) is intact. The only way to get your files back is to send your HDD to Hard Drive data recovery company. However keep in mind that these recovery services are pretty expensive.

That said there are some things you could do:

1) Try to use another SATA and power cable for the HDD. Check if it changes anything.
2)Remove all other drives, plug in only the bad HDD and check if it shows up in the UEFI/BIOS. If it doesn't show up then things aren't looking good.
2)Now if it does show up in the BIOS, unplug it, plug in the OS SSD, boot the system and once windows has finished loading try to plug in the bad HDD. There is a pretty small chance that this will work though but if you are able to access it transfer every important file that you may have. Good luck.

but like this,in a sudden without reason??
i saw a forum that someone said if bios detects it,its there but i needs a format in order to operate again
1)i tried another sata cable,nothing changed in a different sata port,nothing changed,
2)the disk is showing up in the bios although normally
3) plug it in after the system boots? and how will i access it? it doesnt show up
i also took the hdd out and tried to hear through it, it makes 2 tickling sounds at once every 5 seconds or something

 

[nobspls]

The RNG rolled you a pair of snake eyes. Sorry that is the way luck goes sometimes with the manufacturing defects. They try to keep that rate as low as possible but someone has to get unlucky.

 

[amoutzas]

The RNG rolled you a pair of snake eyes. Sorry that is the way luck goes sometimes with the manufacturing defects. They try to keep that rate as low as possible but someone has to get unlucky.

for sure? the hdd is dead?

 

[panathas]

Any HDD can die anytime without warning. Unfortunately that's the nature of HDDs. Most of the time you may get SMART warnings of an imminent drive failure. Do you check the SMART status of your drives, regularly? It might have given you a warning a month or two before.

That's why backing up all important files regularly is so important. HDDs aren't indestructible and you can lose any file you have on them at anytime.

What you are describing is the infamous click of death. You can search online and even find some youtube videos that describe how you can open a drive and attempt to repair it like this one => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVBHG4kajA or this one =>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m5cil6KezI , but keep in mind that you risk destroying every data that your drive may still have on it.

 

[amoutzas]

Any HDD can die anytime without warning. Unfortunately that's the nature of HDDs. Most of the time you may get SMART warnings of an imminent drive failure. Do you check the SMART status of your drives, regularly? It might have given you a warning a month or two before.

That's why backing up all important files regularly is so important. HDDs aren't indestructible and you can lose any file you have on them at anytime.

What you are describing is the infamous click of death. You can search online and even find some youtube videos that describe how you can open a drive and attempt to repair it like this one => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVBHG4kajA or this one =>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m5cil6KezI , but keep in mind that you risk destroying every data that your drive may still have on it.

no i did not get any warnings,everything was working smooth,speeds,transfers,cant understand,
just now i plugged it in as external sata and it got recognized by pc but its loading,i cant access it still,will update once it loads

 

[panathas]

What I'm saying is that you should be using software like Crystal Disk Info which reports back the SMART status of all the drives in a PC system. You just check it once a week to be on the safe side. Usually no HDD will give you any other warning that it's failing. It may work perfectly until the day that it dies. Sometimes (not always) it may even give a SMART warning but you should be checking for it with specific software. Also you have to understand that most of the time electronic parts don't give any failure warnings, one time they work and the next they simply don't.