I got a new 2TB hard drive, transferred all my files from an old drive, everything was great... for 3 days. I had disconnected the HDD for a day to wipe the old drive and when I reconnected the new drive, it prevents the system from booting up. Boot-up drive is SSD (not changed), but whenever I add the new HDD in the system, it does not boot-up and stays only at the Dell circle black screen, cannot even get into BIOS setup. Please help with ideas how to get the drive online, most importantly to recover my data.
Saw some ideas about hotplugging the broken drive post-BIOS, but unfortunately my system seems to not support that (no hotplug option in BIOS and no response when I hotplug that or another good drive).
Also tried switching the BIOS boot-up mode from Legacy (default) to UEFI and booting up from a USB drive - no luck (when the broken HDD is in).
HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB, model #ST2000DM008
System: Dell XPS 8700, Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz
BIOS Revision A09 from 11/22/2014 (Aptio Setup Utility by American Megatrends Inc)
P.S. After posting this I noticed another post about similar issue and with same Seagate drive, unfortunately no solution there.
Saw some ideas about hotplugging the broken drive post-BIOS, but unfortunately my system seems to not support that (no hotplug option in BIOS and no response when I hotplug that or another good drive).
Also tried switching the BIOS boot-up mode from Legacy (default) to UEFI and booting up from a USB drive - no luck (when the broken HDD is in).
HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB, model #ST2000DM008
System: Dell XPS 8700, Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz
BIOS Revision A09 from 11/22/2014 (Aptio Setup Utility by American Megatrends Inc)
P.S. After posting this I noticed another post about similar issue and with same Seagate drive, unfortunately no solution there.
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