Question Help I accidentally scratched my hdd pcb

[Kbaru]

I tried to take out this hdd from a laptop and accidentally scratched a deep cut as such. BIOS still detect the hdd just fine, but installing Windows in it would result in BSOD everytime, i tried to install Kali Linux in it and it's fully operational and normal until i restart my pc, and now BIOS don't detect is as bootable anymore. What should i do?

 

[CountMike]

I tried to take out this hdd from a laptop and accidentally scratched a deep cut as such. BIOS still detect the hdd just fine, but installing Windows in it would result in BSOD everytime, i tried to install Kali Linux in it and it's fully operational and normal until i restart my pc, and now BIOS don't detect is as bootable anymore. What should i do?

Time to switch to SSD.

 

[Lutfij]

What should i do?
If the drive has mission critical data on it, on a different partition, and you can yet access them, I'd advise you backup all data off of it and retire it. If you can't access the data, take it to a professional data recovery specialist and have them do it. In 2024 and beyond, you shouldn't be installing Windows on the drive to begin with. You should move onto an SSD.

 

[CountMike]

What should i do?
If the drive has mission critical data on it, on a different partition, and you can yet access them, I'd advise you backup all data off of it and retire it. If you can't access the data, take it to a professional data recovery specialist and have them do it. In 2024 and beyond, you shouldn't be installing Windows on the drive to begin with. You should move onto an SSD.

He is trying to install Windows on it without success so nothing critical in there and all is gone by now anyway.

 

[Lutfij]

Have come across people who partition an 1TB drive to oblivion then try to reinstall the OS to retrieve the data, based on that assumption I stated what I did.