Question Is my HDD dead?

[OfficerZulu]

No obvious signs of of failing or dying before. I turned on my computer today to realize that it is missing. I've confirmed it is connected properly for data and power. I'm not really sure what else I can try.

Here's a screenshot of partition and device manager it's the 1tb hdd that is marked missing/failed. Note that the drive was roughly 650gb/1tb used and now it is reporting 100% free space. Should I be planning a trip to micro center for a drive replacement soon?

partition manager

 

[velocityg4]

Yep, time to replace it. They do die suddenly. I know people think there will be warning signs. Which is sometimes the case. Often it's just sudden.

Even if you managed to get it working. Hard Drives are too fiddly and too cheap to ever trust it again.

 

[Viking2121]

I had one report issues in the smart status for 4 years, and recently it died, prevented the PC from even booting sometimes, I was able to get lucky and get my data off of it, although nothing important, it just saved me having to do more work to get it back.

I tore it apart for the magnets, in fact I got them on my metal 10 port tplink switch which I stuck to the side of my server case, works well.

But yes, time to get a new one, if you keep valuable data on it, at the vary least, keep 2 copies of it, on 2 different drives, preferably not in the same system or even location which I fail that part, but its life I guess.

 

[USAFRet]

I had one report issues in the smart status for 4 years, and recently it died,

And I had one report absolutely NO problem.
Next day...dead. 5 weeks old.

As said, backups of the data is the only thing that counts.
The physical drive is easily replaced.

 

[ssbaraskar99]

No obvious signs of of failing or dying before. I turned on my computer today to realize that it is missing. I've confirmed it is connected properly for data and power. I'm not really sure what else I can try.

Here's a screenshot of partition and device manager it's the 1tb hdd that is marked missing/failed. Note that the drive was roughly 650gb/1tb used and now it is reporting 100% free space. Should I be planning a trip to micro center for a drive replacement soon?

partition manager

If it's under warranty then you should tell them the issue and get replacement.

Try plugging it in another SATA port or other Machine.

Please take a back up of your files that can't be ever produced/downloaded from internet.
(Personal photos, documents etc)

Use Crystal Disk Info to see any issues.

It's scary to suddenly see 100% free disk space.
You sure you don't have any viruses/malwares on your machine.