- Aug 10, 2013
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Hi, everyone! I'm having an issue with my hdd and would appreciate any help you could provide!
Thanks in advance!
- ■I have two HDDs, both being pretty old and in use for almost a decade:
- 32gb with wide (p?)ata cable (ATA MAXTOR 6L040J2)
- 250gb sata drive (an old model, I think it's Hitachi; I'll provide more detailes if necessary).
■The motherboard I'm using is Gigabyte GA-780T-D3L; only 1 year old, no issues
■Yesterday I, as usual, hibernated my Win7 and turned everything off. Today the sata drive, with my Win7 boot and all the data, is no longer detected in BIOS. Immediately I..
- checked all the sata\power cables
- cleared out the dirt
- thinking it might be the PSU, I changed it (400W) to another, older one (360W); I also rebooted with all the other cables\usb unplugged
- thinking it might be the SATA cable, I changed it as well; tried different (8 in total) motherboard sata sockets
- thinking it might be BIOS, I checked that SATA is set to native and reset the config
- when loading the BIOS (on the "detecting drives" stage), the detecting itself takes unusual ~5+ sec (usually ~<1sec) with sata plugged in; without it everything goes smoothly
■Yet nothing helped. I logged in my Ubuntu install on the 32gb ATA drive to browse the forums for a solution. After ~15-20min I think I noticed a burning smell so I turned everything off and unplugged the nonworking SATA drive from power and motherboard. Having rebooted, everything is working with no smell\issues (apart from unplugged hdd). I'm not sure if the smell came from hdd or psu.
■Questions!
- Any suggestions?
- Should I try booting it up with memory sticks\monitor unplugged or other magical setups to rule out some of the motherboard issues, or is it more or less confirmed that the hard drive is no longer functional?
- If the latter is the case, can the information be restored? I've checked the local repair stores and they charge for ~200$-300$ for a recovery (I'm not in the US). That's rather expensive for an old 250gb drive.
- Is there any program to boot from USB that could detect the drive even when BIOS didn't?
Thanks in advance!
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