- May 10, 2015
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Hello everyone,
I've got the following problem:
I am in desperate need for additional disk space, but a little low on budget. Luckily a colleague could get me a seemingly broken hdd from WD with 1 TB. Problem was: it did not boot anymore in its original system. So there should be some Data on the drive and even a bootable OS.
After plugging it in, it gets correctly identified as a slave to my master SDD at the BIOS, but after the "Loading Operating System..." prompt (win7) I only get more and more random colored pixels in the top few lines of my screen.
So I went into diagnosis using Ultimate Boot Disk and some of its tools, especially the WD Lifeguard Diagnostics Tool for DOS. When doing so, the Tool immediately freezes upon starting a quick test, leaving a reset the only option. When I use boot management tools, it IS possible to read out the master boot sector (though, this does not help me very much, as I am unable to read it...).
So until now, I am unable to bring the HDD back to life. If someone here has any ideas what the issue could be or how to remedy it, I would be extremely grateful!
Thanks a lot in advance!
Matthias
I've got the following problem:
I am in desperate need for additional disk space, but a little low on budget. Luckily a colleague could get me a seemingly broken hdd from WD with 1 TB. Problem was: it did not boot anymore in its original system. So there should be some Data on the drive and even a bootable OS.
After plugging it in, it gets correctly identified as a slave to my master SDD at the BIOS, but after the "Loading Operating System..." prompt (win7) I only get more and more random colored pixels in the top few lines of my screen.
So I went into diagnosis using Ultimate Boot Disk and some of its tools, especially the WD Lifeguard Diagnostics Tool for DOS. When doing so, the Tool immediately freezes upon starting a quick test, leaving a reset the only option. When I use boot management tools, it IS possible to read out the master boot sector (though, this does not help me very much, as I am unable to read it...).
So until now, I am unable to bring the HDD back to life. If someone here has any ideas what the issue could be or how to remedy it, I would be extremely grateful!
Thanks a lot in advance!
Matthias
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