Hard drive unformatable/showing as a cd drive

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Hey all I was recently working on a desktop pc i have because it wouldent load the os (froze at loading windows screen-----w7 also wouldent let me reinstall windows) anyways i couldent figure out what was going on so i hooked the hard drive up to my laptop and it is showing as a cd drive....its normally a 1tb drive i have included a screenshot of what i see and tried (diskpart and diskmgmt) if anyone has any info on this or how to go about it it would help alot


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there i re posted the links ect to the screenshot. and ok i can try the manufactures disc and see if it finds anything but in the mean time do you guys think there is a way to fix it? or some things i can at least try
 
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If it is mechanical, no, unless you are prepared to take off the circuit board, at a minimum.
On the higher end you would have to take the disk out, and put it into another hard drive.

The donor drive has to be the exact same model, and even close to manufacturing dates, because they change the boards all the time.

If it is not mechanical, except for creep, Spinrite will usually fix it.
But it has to be recognised by the computer, for Spinrite to work.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
 
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I wouldn't rely on a fixed hard drive, even if one or those expensive, recovery service, did it.
When you fix a hard drive, it is just so you can copy the data, and you are done with it, in most cases.

I know admins that buy dozens of hard drives at the same time from the same batch, just so they have boards to swap, when an important drive crashes.

 
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Yea I'll prob buy one in a few days. By what I posted and the pic should I just trash it and get another ? Also I would buy them a few at a time but I can't find a decently priced place :/
 
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Probably, but I always get the final word from the manufacturers test disk.

It is pretty hard for the average person to but a case of hard drives.
The people I'm talking about work for big companies, and it is worth it to them.
As well as they get a big discount, because they are BIG.
 
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