Can recover/load 2TB hard drives from anything Please Help

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tjgeb180

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Alright so me an my padre have been in the process of moving an old HP Home server to a new Synology NAS. The HP server died on us so this is the reason for the switch the problem were having is with the 3 2TB HDD we had in it. Nothing will read them we've gone through 2 or 3 external cases and tried them with a laptop and got nothing and I even tossed them in my own desktop and it wont even pick them up in the BIOS. The HDD's seem to be working they spool up no clicking or anything and I find it hard to believe that all 3 of them are shot while the single 1TB HDD that was in it has worked fine with no problems.

So here's where were at.
The HDD's weren't set up in a raid configuration
Both external Casing's claimed they support 2TB+/3TB+
My motherboard on my desktop is a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 and it supports 3TB+ drives (even flashed to the newest BIOS and updated the drivers/chipsets)
They new Synology NAS also can't pick up the HDD's either
The 1TB drive has worked with everything so far
And all the drives Spool up fine no clicking or anything.

So were kinda stumped on what to do here next

Also the HDD's are Seagates I dunno the model # but if you want them to I can post them same with the model of the old HP home server we have.

Any help/troubleshooting would be appreciated Thanks

EDIT: Got one of the 2TB's working however the spacing on it makes no sense first it says 1.25TB's are being used the actual data on it hidden files included = 211GB when moved to my computer the size comes out to be 422GB... Mind Blown.....
 
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What happend to the HP server exactly?? If there was some kind of power issues it could have fried something. But then that single 1TB was fine. This is definatly an interesting thing going on.
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Thinking a board in it died it still powers on and the HDD's still spool up just wont boot anything and can't get into the file system. But yea I was thinking it might have been a power issue to but from what my father said it didn't get unplugged or shut down or anything it just stopped working randomly haha.

 
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Yea I hate it when that happens lol but I ask because on rare occasions if the PSU it self went bad it COULD have taken out the hard drives with them.

It just sounds odd how even the BIOS won't pick them up when connected straight to a SATA.

Sometimes I wish I could just have people bring me their stuff and work on it haha so much easier than doing it over these forums lmao
 
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Yea I know what you mean pain trying to troubleshoot stuff you can;t get your hands on. The HP server was HP Media server EX470 and here's something might be helpful the server even tho it wasn't in a raid did spread the data over the drives but the 1TB HDD we were still able to recover all the photo's/video's and stuff off it fine and still open the stuff. Also the 500GB HDD with the OS apparently is still in good shape to its just these stupid 2TB drives >_>

 
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Yea IDK. If the Bios won't even pick them up in a few PC's There's not much that anyone on here could probably do. If your lucky it may just be the PCB board that is bad and if you can find someone with the same working drive and they are ok with it try swapping their PCB and see if you can get in it? it has to the the EXACT same model though. that is all I can think of.
 
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