Unsure what happened? Seagate Barracuda 2TB Suddenly stops working and makes weird noise.

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ProdigyInspired

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Hi,

Yesterday night, I was just randomly doing stuff on my computer, nothing heavy, just browsing, and I heard a weird sound, like a high-pitched metal grinding sound. I suspected it came from my Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD as I couldn't access it, however the name and size meter was still there.

I restarted my computer, and as I have an SSD, I'm used to my computer booting fast, however after this, my computer booted slowly, the HDD appeared for a few seconds then was removed from the HDD list. This has never happened before, and I'm surprised as my at least 4 year old 500GB WD HDD has been running fine all this time, unless its a size issue.

I googled and found a site with sounds that would associate with a problematic Hard drive, none of these matched with what I was hearing.
Here's my recording for clarification .wav
Sound is around 6-8 seconds. Clip is 9 seconds long. This is from boot.
 
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Try running segate tools http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/
to see what going on with the drive. Hopefully you have backups, if not and If you manage to regain access to your data, I recommend you immediately back it up and replace the drive. Once a drive starts acting funny, really slow, thats basicly a warning that is gonna die.
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dvs_xerxes

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Try running segate tools http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/
to see what going on with the drive. Hopefully you have backups, if not and If you manage to regain access to your data, I recommend you immediately back it up and replace the drive. Once a drive starts acting funny, really slow, thats basicly a warning that is gonna die.
 
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ProdigyInspired

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I ran the tool, it doesn't actually show my hard drive. I have 3 hard drives installed that should be working. It only shows 2.

I can't actually back up the hard drive if I can't see it. Does this mean all my data is gone if the HDD is dead?
 
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dvs_xerxes

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Yeah that drive is dead I'm afraid. If you really need the data back the only option is a professional data recovery service and thats never ever cheap.

if the data is not too important then may be you can rma it and get a new drive if its still under warranty.
 
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ProdigyInspired

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Even if it is dead, how come it vastly affects the boot time when my SSD is prioritized during boot?

 
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ProdigyInspired

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Ah okay, thanks. Is there any other way for me to confirm that the hard drive is officially dead?
 
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If it's not recognized by your PC, i.e. doesn't show up in the BIOS during POST, not seen by SeaTools or the disk manager, it's for all intents and purposes dead. It apparently is still able to communicate with the PC at some level, because it's delaying the OS boot. But this doesn't mean you can gain access to the data.
 
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