Internal HDD shows 0 bytes. Help!

[milonakess]

I've had two Western Digital Blue Caviar 320GB for the last 8-9 years in my PC. Last week started to act strange, pc would constantly go into startup repair on startup. Then it shut off and would not boot up again. Both hdd's are recognized in BIOS, but do not show any capacity. (0 mb)

I've since bought a Seagate 1TB and installed it as primary drive w/ Windows 7 to get my pc running again.
The other two drives are currently still connected to the Motherboard (asus p5n-32 sli plus) (Sata). They do have a letter assigned to them, but again, they show 0MB of space. When I click on 1 of the drives in "computer" it says you need to format the disk in order to use it. and lists space as 155Kb. And so I cannot access the drives.

In disk management, they are listen as online and working properly, but I cannot see/do anything with them. I've already tried Data Recovery tools such as Seatools/DIskinternals Partition Recovery/Test Disk. All have failed. I've had a system backup on one of the drives, but testdisk cannot find it. Nothing seems to work so far.

Is there any chance that I can access the drives at all, recover what was on there?
I mean one of them was the primary drive, but the other had no reason to go out, it just was a backup drive so to speak.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

It doesn't matter what you use a hard drive for, it will fail eventually, and failure after 8-9 years is certainly not premature.
Replace them both.

 

[milonakess]

It doesn't matter what you use a hard drive for, it will fail eventually, and failure after 8-9 years is certainly not premature.
Replace them both.

I understand that, And as I stated i've already replaced them. But my question was if there was any chance of recovering the data (if any) at this stage?

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, milonakess!

Sorry to hear about your WD drives, it seems like you've been taking good care of them but, unfortunately, hardware fails at some point. I'm not sure you will be able to recover your data by yourself. But I'd suggest you to run WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics tool on them and see what is the health and SMART status of the WD Blue drives. Here's a link to the utility: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=3mfutx
Share the results after running the quick and extended test.

I think that the best chance you have at recovering your data is to turn to a professional company, since you've already tried a couple of third-party utilities and it didn't work. I'd recommend you to check WD's data recovery partners across the world here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=LWubJU

Keep us updated!
SuperSoph_WD