Question I accidentally scratched my HDD's 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.

 

[LuKaWin10]

Switch to an SSD. What laptop model do you have? Good SATA SSDs are the Crucial MX500 and Samsung 870 EVO

 

[Bob.B]

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?

Did this hdd work in the orig laptop?

 

[Kbaru]

Did this hdd work in the orig laptop?

it works everywhere, it's just no longer bootable no matter the system. Think i'll just use it as storage, it's not really all screwed.

 

[Ralston18]

Use as "expendable storage" meaning that you expect that the drive could completely fail at any time and that you do not care at all if the stored data is lost.

Otherwise, any data entrusted to that drive (or any drive for that matter) needs to be backed up to at least two other locations away from the host drive.

Verify that the backed up data is recoverable and readable.