I have a Seagate Barracuda ES.2 250 GB internal hard drive. This morning, I rebooted my computer. Upon powering back up, my hard drive could not be detected. I've built my computer nearly 6 years ago and have had no problems with the hard drive until now.
I checked all of the cables (power and SATA), plugged it into different SATA ports, and tried resetting the BIOS. My friend has loaned me a hard drive docking station (Thermaltake Blacx SATA HDD USB Docking Station) in order to rule out the power/SATA cable issue. When I insert the hard drive into the docking station, hook the station to my laptop, and power it on, I hear the hard drive start to spin and then stop spinning. It continues this spinning/stopping process every 45 seconds. My laptop does not detect the external hard drive. I've tried the same thing with a known working hard drive and my laptop successfully detects it using the docking station.
What are my options at this point? I have most of the data backed up prior to this issue, but I do have some important things that have not been backed up yet. Is there anyway I can bring the drive back to life so I can transport the data to a healthy drive?
Thanks in advance!
I checked all of the cables (power and SATA), plugged it into different SATA ports, and tried resetting the BIOS. My friend has loaned me a hard drive docking station (Thermaltake Blacx SATA HDD USB Docking Station) in order to rule out the power/SATA cable issue. When I insert the hard drive into the docking station, hook the station to my laptop, and power it on, I hear the hard drive start to spin and then stop spinning. It continues this spinning/stopping process every 45 seconds. My laptop does not detect the external hard drive. I've tried the same thing with a known working hard drive and my laptop successfully detects it using the docking station.
What are my options at this point? I have most of the data backed up prior to this issue, but I do have some important things that have not been backed up yet. Is there anyway I can bring the drive back to life so I can transport the data to a healthy drive?
Thanks in advance!
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