Samsung HDD not detected

[dimix70]

Hi,

I just salvaged a Samsung HD103SI drive out of a cheaper external HDD and plugged it in. Naturally it doesn't appear in My Computer.

When I go into 'Disk Management' under 'Storage' in Computer Management, it's nowhere to be seen - not even as unallocated space.
The only place where it gets detected is the bios.

Specs:
Asrock 970 Pro 3 AM3+
Phenom II 965 Black Edition
8gb or Ram
WD Caviar Blue 500gb as a boot drive
GTX 560 1gb

Thoughts?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

It has most likely failed. A failed hard drive will often be shown in the BIOS but nowhere else.
You won't be able to test it either if Windows isn't seeing it, so there's very little you can do.

 

[dimix70]

Update:
I managed to somehow make windows detect the drive, did a quick format to ntfs but when I try to put any files inside it, the transfer freezes and the drive disapears again.

 

[dimix70]

Yes it is detected, ran a couple tests with 2 HDD testing softwares.
Here are the results:

From what I read arround the internet, this HDD is dead or almost dead.
Any way to revive/fix it?

 

[dimix70]

Thank you all for replying.
It was just an HDD I was trying to salvage (used to be an external HDD) and no data was lost.
I guess Im not getting a free storage upgrade today... 🙁