my hard disk sounds like grinding and not showing in bios?

[5694643]

my 500gb hard disk sounds like grinding and not showing in bios.when i put it as secondary in another computer it showed in disk management as uninitialized disk0.and it memory size is showing only 3gb.how to solve it?

 

[nostall]

my 500gb hard disk sounds like grinding and not showing in bios.when i put it as secondary in another computer it showed in disk management as uninitialized disk0.and it memory size is showing only 3gb.how to solve it?

Sounds like your Hard drive is about to self-destruct or perhaps already has. Try saving what you can from it and then replace it. You also try using the manufactures diagnostics to see if it will give an error code. If it is under warranty, contact the manufacture.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there 5694643,

I would agree with nostall. The HDD is most probably dead.
You can go to BIOS and see if it is recognized as having 3 GB of storage capacity as well. If this is the case, then I guess the drive has some mechanical fault.
If you have some really important data stored on it, you will need to contact a data recovery company.

Apart from that, if you are not planning on sending the drive to a specialist, you can try to access it with some data recovery tool(and diagnostic one afterwards): http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

D_Know_WD