I have a 3tb Seagate harddrive that died on me last week. I am not entirely sure what could have happened, this drive is only used as storage for my media (movies, tv shows, music, etc).
The drive spins up, no problem. It's still nice and quiet, too, no strange sounds or rattles. But it can't be detected on any machine I have tried (A Windows 10 one that it has always been on as well as a Windows 7 and a Windows 8). It's like it is not even there. Even put it in a sled to try and connect it externally and nothing.
After lots and lots of research, based on the symptoms I narrowed it down to two possible things. The PCB board or the plates themselves. Since the plates sound find, I figured it was likely the PCB board. Now to be clear, I know this is the "last resort' kind of fix, but for me it really was the last resort because while I DO want my files back if possible, I am not willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to have them professionally recovered. So it was either this, or I give up and trash it.
I found a donor board online and swapped them out. The good news is... I can see the HDD now!
The bad news is, it's borked.
Under Disc Management it comes up as Disk 5 (no letter) and Unknown. I can not get it to initialize. It also is reporting only 3.86gb, despite being a 3tb drive.
I downloaded HDDScan and ran a report, but I am not sure what to do now. All it comes back with is dozens upon dozens of these "Bad block found, start LBD: 0 Lots and lots of those, various numbers starting at 0 and going up to 8089600.
How do I get this drive back up and running?
The drive spins up, no problem. It's still nice and quiet, too, no strange sounds or rattles. But it can't be detected on any machine I have tried (A Windows 10 one that it has always been on as well as a Windows 7 and a Windows 8). It's like it is not even there. Even put it in a sled to try and connect it externally and nothing.
After lots and lots of research, based on the symptoms I narrowed it down to two possible things. The PCB board or the plates themselves. Since the plates sound find, I figured it was likely the PCB board. Now to be clear, I know this is the "last resort' kind of fix, but for me it really was the last resort because while I DO want my files back if possible, I am not willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to have them professionally recovered. So it was either this, or I give up and trash it.
I found a donor board online and swapped them out. The good news is... I can see the HDD now!
The bad news is, it's borked.
Under Disc Management it comes up as Disk 5 (no letter) and Unknown. I can not get it to initialize. It also is reporting only 3.86gb, despite being a 3tb drive.
I downloaded HDDScan and ran a report, but I am not sure what to do now. All it comes back with is dozens upon dozens of these "Bad block found, start LBD: 0 Lots and lots of those, various numbers starting at 0 and going up to 8089600.
How do I get this drive back up and running?