Hey every one, ok weird one
I have a laptop HDD WD blue 500GB that had windows 8 installed on it but suffered from the BSOD so I went to reinstall windows from a usb, when I got to the drive partition page, the drive wasn't there. So I checked the bios and it's there every time.
I booted into windows 7 on a separate HDD and let the broken one connected. Windows couldn't find it either. Not in device manager, disk management, my computer or test disk
So I donwnloaded a program from Microsoft called ifixit as it was recommended on another forum and it sort of did solve the problem, the drive appeared but with the RAW format. So I jumped into disk part and tried to run the clean command, my whole system just lagged everything started running slow and eventually stopped with out crashing, task manager not responding etc etc
So I kept trying and 2 hours later I got it to accept a clean command, I created a new primary partition gave it a drive letter and formatted again for NTFS ( not quick format ) I created a file called hi.txt and was able to open it and save text inside. I booted up the windows 8 installed again and no drive, tried list disk and list volume from disk part, nothing.
Re booted into windows 7 and it was gone no trace, re checked bios and was there. Ran ifixit again and it came back after 3 runs but wouldn't accept and commands
Finally got it to appear in the windows 8 installer went to install it passed the preparing to copy windows files and when I woke up this morning it's still on 0% so knocked it off back into windows 7 guess what no drive
Things I should mention
EaseUs data recovery wizard and partition manager can't find it.
There is a very noticeable metallic click from the drive when I run ifixit
Tried reloading the MBR with test disk no luck
Tried switching sata cable, sata port, power cable
I don't give a shit about the data which is prob gone already but I'd like my drive to work
Any suggestions ???
I have a laptop HDD WD blue 500GB that had windows 8 installed on it but suffered from the BSOD so I went to reinstall windows from a usb, when I got to the drive partition page, the drive wasn't there. So I checked the bios and it's there every time.
I booted into windows 7 on a separate HDD and let the broken one connected. Windows couldn't find it either. Not in device manager, disk management, my computer or test disk
So I donwnloaded a program from Microsoft called ifixit as it was recommended on another forum and it sort of did solve the problem, the drive appeared but with the RAW format. So I jumped into disk part and tried to run the clean command, my whole system just lagged everything started running slow and eventually stopped with out crashing, task manager not responding etc etc
So I kept trying and 2 hours later I got it to accept a clean command, I created a new primary partition gave it a drive letter and formatted again for NTFS ( not quick format ) I created a file called hi.txt and was able to open it and save text inside. I booted up the windows 8 installed again and no drive, tried list disk and list volume from disk part, nothing.
Re booted into windows 7 and it was gone no trace, re checked bios and was there. Ran ifixit again and it came back after 3 runs but wouldn't accept and commands
Finally got it to appear in the windows 8 installer went to install it passed the preparing to copy windows files and when I woke up this morning it's still on 0% so knocked it off back into windows 7 guess what no drive
Things I should mention
EaseUs data recovery wizard and partition manager can't find it.
There is a very noticeable metallic click from the drive when I run ifixit
Tried reloading the MBR with test disk no luck
Tried switching sata cable, sata port, power cable
I don't give a shit about the data which is prob gone already but I'd like my drive to work
Any suggestions ???
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