- Mar 22, 2016
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Ok so I built my PC about 4 years ago. When I built it i put a 120GB SSD for my Windows 7 OS and a 3TB HDD for extra storage. I was hoping to use it for gaming, video editing, music production, Etc. Early this year, when I turned on my computer, my 3TB hard drive was no longer showing up in my computer. It was no longer showing up in my disk management either. I figured maybe one of my SATA cables went bad. So I bought new ones and replaced them and still nothing. Only my solid state was showing up. I know over time computer parts get wear and tear and eventually die, but I wanted to see if there's a chance I can get my data from it.
As a last ditch effort i borrowed my friend's hard drive enclosure to see if i could get it to show up. Just to point out, it is a hard drive enclosure for a 2.5" HDD, but i took the part that attaches to the hard drive out and plugged that into my USB port. It seemed to work. I got the pop up saying it was installing drivers but it still did not show up in my computer. I checked disk management and it is showing up.
The problem I am facing now is in disk management it is showing up as Disk 2 unknown and under that it says not initialized. When I try to initialize it I get an error saying "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Could this be because the enclosure is for a 2.5"? Do you think the hard drive is salvageable?
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated
Thank you.
As a last ditch effort i borrowed my friend's hard drive enclosure to see if i could get it to show up. Just to point out, it is a hard drive enclosure for a 2.5" HDD, but i took the part that attaches to the hard drive out and plugged that into my USB port. It seemed to work. I got the pop up saying it was installing drivers but it still did not show up in my computer. I checked disk management and it is showing up.
The problem I am facing now is in disk management it is showing up as Disk 2 unknown and under that it says not initialized. When I try to initialize it I get an error saying "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Could this be because the enclosure is for a 2.5"? Do you think the hard drive is salvageable?
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated
Thank you.
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