Unable to do anything with Hard drive

[Xeroknight67]

Ok so I built my PC about 4 years ago. When I built it i put a 120GB SSD for my Windows 7 OS and a 3TB HDD for extra storage. I was hoping to use it for gaming, video editing, music production, Etc. Early this year, when I turned on my computer, my 3TB hard drive was no longer showing up in my computer. It was no longer showing up in my disk management either. I figured maybe one of my SATA cables went bad. So I bought new ones and replaced them and still nothing. Only my solid state was showing up. I know over time computer parts get wear and tear and eventually die, but I wanted to see if there's a chance I can get my data from it.

As a last ditch effort i borrowed my friend's hard drive enclosure to see if i could get it to show up. Just to point out, it is a hard drive enclosure for a 2.5" HDD, but i took the part that attaches to the hard drive out and plugged that into my USB port. It seemed to work. I got the pop up saying it was installing drivers but it still did not show up in my computer. I checked disk management and it is showing up.

The problem I am facing now is in disk management it is showing up as Disk 2 unknown and under that it says not initialized. When I try to initialize it I get an error saying "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Could this be because the enclosure is for a 2.5"? Do you think the hard drive is salvageable?

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated

Thank you.

 

[popatim]

Check if you can feel the drive spinning/vibrating.
What you see is typical of an enclosure that is responding to the pc but the drive inside is not responding to the enclosure.

 

[Xeroknight67]

Check if you can feel the drive spinning/vibrating.
What you see is typical of an enclosure that is responding to the pc but the drive inside is not responding to the enclosure.

So if the hard drive is doing nothing it's pretty much dead?

 

[popatim]

Yes but that still doesn't mean data cannot be recovered. Often its a simple TVS Diode fix or a board swap from an identical drive (also swapping the eprom chip) that may bring the drive back to life long enough to rescue important data.

 

[Xeroknight67]

Yes but that still doesn't mean data cannot be recovered. Often its a simple TVS Diode fix or a board swap from an identical drive (also swapping the eprom chip) that may bring the drive back to life long enough to rescue important data.

Ok, I will look into that, Thank you