I use two harddrives, an intel SSD for my OS and programs I run often that utilize the disk a lot, and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB storage drive for things like documents/music/movies/non-intensive programs etc.
About a week or so I started noticing some odd behaviour-- the red HD light would occasionally go solid, which was fixed with a reboot. I narrowed it down to it being the storage HD, not the SSD (the HD is assigned D:\ and Windows wouldn't be able to locate or access it during the time that the light was on solidly). I wondered whether it was starting to fail at this time so I backed up some of the most irreplaceable files (I should have just backed up everything. there is still a lot of critical and nigh-irreplaceable stuff on it).
Anyways today the light was a solid red when I turned the computer on. The HD wasn't detected at all. I tried switching both power and SATA cables. I unplugged all SATA devices except for the SSD, tried each cable and port individually with the SSD, all fine. As soon as I plug in the HD, red light on.
I have a TT BlacX docking station, so I removed the HD, and tried using it in the docking station as a last resort-- D:\ shows up when the HD is plugged into the docking station, but the computer will go thru a mini-freeze when I try to access it, and the drive doesn't have a volume label.
It was ONCE able to detect the drive (i.e. 'ST1000DM003'), but that was during a freeze, and I had to turn off the docking station to resolve it anyways.
It seems pretty dire, any thoughts would be really appreciated.
About a week or so I started noticing some odd behaviour-- the red HD light would occasionally go solid, which was fixed with a reboot. I narrowed it down to it being the storage HD, not the SSD (the HD is assigned D:\ and Windows wouldn't be able to locate or access it during the time that the light was on solidly). I wondered whether it was starting to fail at this time so I backed up some of the most irreplaceable files (I should have just backed up everything. there is still a lot of critical and nigh-irreplaceable stuff on it).
Anyways today the light was a solid red when I turned the computer on. The HD wasn't detected at all. I tried switching both power and SATA cables. I unplugged all SATA devices except for the SSD, tried each cable and port individually with the SSD, all fine. As soon as I plug in the HD, red light on.
I have a TT BlacX docking station, so I removed the HD, and tried using it in the docking station as a last resort-- D:\ shows up when the HD is plugged into the docking station, but the computer will go thru a mini-freeze when I try to access it, and the drive doesn't have a volume label.
It was ONCE able to detect the drive (i.e. 'ST1000DM003'), but that was during a freeze, and I had to turn off the docking station to resolve it anyways.
It seems pretty dire, any thoughts would be really appreciated.
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