[SOLVED] Scanning and repairing drive (A:)

[mdemanuelh7]

When I turned on my PC today, it suddenly went to Scanning and repairing for my HDD; after 3hrs of wait, it's still stuck at 0%. My OS is in my SSD, I decided to unplug the HDD and restart and it worked fine. I then replugged my HDD and it went to scanning and repair again on the Gygabyte screen. No idea what to do.

 

[hang-the-9]

Sounds like that hard drive is failing or is bad already. You should be able to hit a key to cancel the scan. Then install a disk check utility from the drive vendor support site and run that to scan the disk. It will likely come up with a bunch of errors. Replace the drive.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello mdemanuelh7,

When a SSD or HDD is not detected by the BIOS it is usually not working at all. Do you have any other computer to verify if the SSD is detected, on that one?

 

[mdemanuelh7]

Sounds like that hard drive is failing or is bad already. You should be able to hit a key to cancel the scan. Then install a disk check utility from the drive vendor support site and run that to scan the disk. It will likely come up with a bunch of errors. Replace the drive.

How should I retrieve the files?

 

[hang-the-9]

Sounds like that hard drive is failing or is bad already. You should be able to hit a key to cancel the scan. Then install a disk check utility from the drive vendor support site and run that to scan the disk. It will likely come up with a bunch of errors. Replace the drive.

How should I retrieve the files?

Remove it from the system and see if you can read the files using a USB enclosure. Or try booting of a Linux Live disk and see if you can copy the files out that way to a USB drive.

Next time keep backups of your files so you don't have to worry about this.