Hard drive suddenly disappears after 7 years of working perfectly

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Hello!

I have a WD 500GB (WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0) hard drive of 7 years, coming strongly on 8 years now. Never had a problem with it.

But yesterday, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it disappears from My Computer, Device Manager, Disk Management and BIOS.

Only thing recognizing it was HD Sentinel. And it said the disk is Offline.
I did get a weak sector about a month ago and together with age, that is probably not a good sign?

Here are some HD Sentinel screenshots:

http://i.imgur.com/vjLTpqZ.png
http://i.imgur.com/XCT7Tez.png
http://i.imgur.com/ZMUhMXq.png
http://i.imgur.com/ym5R3Jf.png
http://i.imgur.com/7P1M9ah.png
http://i.imgur.com/pAUZyl9.png

Speccy summary:
http://i.imgur.com/12co1qM.png

There were no major changes on sofware or hardware side of things before this happened. Like I said, out of the blue.

Tried updating mobo's drivers, no change. Then I completely disconnected the disk and reconnected it into another SATA port on motherboard. It worked for a few hours until it disappeared again.

Is there anything that can be done at this stage? Or is this final goodbye?
 
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Alex Kelly
Try and grab the data you need off it, before it dies completely.
You'll need a new drive, perhaps a WD Caviar Blue, or an SSD if you can afford one. :)
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Doesn't recognize it, while it's "offline". Will have to reconnect the SATA cables again to hopefully recognize it.
 
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Here:

Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
Unit Serial Number: WD-WCAS80673977
Firmware Number: 12.01C02
Capacity: 500.11 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: PASS
Test Time: 14:25:38, August 21, 2014


I don't understand. On surface everything seems fine.
 
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Well, the reconnecting of SATA cables helps but like I said only for a few hours. It was enough so I could backup vital files and the rest that are not important I will leave on it until my new WD Blue 1TB arrives and will try to move the rest to the new disk. :)

Thanks everybody! It's just not worth hoping that it will still work. But what I wonder is how every program said the disk is FINE. I did get that weak sector from HD Sentinel but the program also said it's perfectly fine to continue using it. Guess you can't even fully trust these programs.
 
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