Hello,
UPD: Succeeded to start the HDD under a running OS, IT IS NOT DEAD.
TLDR: my thought about the current situation: the HDD is probably dead after ~3.5years; luckily no data loss due to a full disk backup yesterday (first backup ever!)
The point of this thread is to receive word that the HDD is unrecoverable and I have to spend another 50euro on a new one (this sucks).
Chronology:
0) Installed a new 1TB HDD for a RAID1 (unused yet), moving my (currently problematic) drive to another slot
1) FULL data backup, copying >750GiB of files to an external HDD (several tries because a program crashed)
2) Deleting files here and there, did a full format of a 75GiB Partition under Windows
3) Partial defragmentation of 500GiB with MyDefrag, ~4 hours
Then I decided to disable the 12GiB big pagefile
4) Reboot (did not power off!)
5) Failing here to get to POST in BIOS
Basically, all I see is the general chipset information after that usually comes POST where devices are checked and connected drives are shown, but not this time.
After that basic information the screen becomes and stays black with my HDD quietly trying to access some data (personally, I wouldn't call this the clicking of death just because it's pretty similar to the sounds of it's regular work flow)
You can hear the clicks in the background of my fans:
Video: http://youtu.be/SSHWicMgUA8
Additional information:
Western Digital Blue ( WD10EALX ) 1TB, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache
The HDD spins up normally
Disconnecting the HDD allows to pass POST and boot from SSD
I changed the SATA cable and connection - no success
Tried to wait 10 minutes, all the same
Things I could try tomorrow:
Connect an internal speaker (maybe beep tones?)
Hotplug with running OS?
Try the other 4 sata ports
Connect to another PC
Do you guys have any ideas?
(how could I get this HDD working again?)
Thanks,
VADemon
UPD: Succeeded to start the HDD under a running OS, IT IS NOT DEAD.
TLDR: my thought about the current situation: the HDD is probably dead after ~3.5years; luckily no data loss due to a full disk backup yesterday (first backup ever!)
The point of this thread is to receive word that the HDD is unrecoverable and I have to spend another 50euro on a new one (this sucks).
Chronology:
0) Installed a new 1TB HDD for a RAID1 (unused yet), moving my (currently problematic) drive to another slot
1) FULL data backup, copying >750GiB of files to an external HDD (several tries because a program crashed)
2) Deleting files here and there, did a full format of a 75GiB Partition under Windows
3) Partial defragmentation of 500GiB with MyDefrag, ~4 hours
Then I decided to disable the 12GiB big pagefile
4) Reboot (did not power off!)
5) Failing here to get to POST in BIOS
Basically, all I see is the general chipset information after that usually comes POST where devices are checked and connected drives are shown, but not this time.
After that basic information the screen becomes and stays black with my HDD quietly trying to access some data (personally, I wouldn't call this the clicking of death just because it's pretty similar to the sounds of it's regular work flow)
You can hear the clicks in the background of my fans:
Video: http://youtu.be/SSHWicMgUA8
Additional information:
Western Digital Blue ( WD10EALX ) 1TB, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache
The HDD spins up normally
Disconnecting the HDD allows to pass POST and boot from SSD
I changed the SATA cable and connection - no success
Tried to wait 10 minutes, all the same
Things I could try tomorrow:
Connect an internal speaker (maybe beep tones?)
Hotplug with running OS?
Try the other 4 sata ports
Connect to another PC
Do you guys have any ideas?
(how could I get this HDD working again?)
Thanks,
VADemon
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