HDD won't show in bios labeled as bad

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Akbones

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I bought my computer back in December 2014. I installed a SSD, and a sea gate hdd. After about 6 months I noticed that my hdd had disappeared and Windows said it was corrupted. I bought another hdd and installed that. Everything worked fine till about a month ago it wasn't showing up. I was able to still bring it up in device manager and disk management and ended up reformatting. Installed majority of items back on the disk and has worked fine till today when I returned home from work and it again was not there. I opened up device manager... It was there I checked drivers and it said up to date and it was working properly. Opened disk management and the disk was there but showed with a red arrow and unallocated. I tried to allocated it or whatever and it came up with an error stating I/O at the end of it. Tried unplugging and replugging it back in. Even tried other sata cables and even the cables to my sdd drive. When I would turn it on bios would pop up but no disk recognized. I re hooked everything back up the way it was and booted. The same problem existed with the disk unallocated, not showing up in bios. I read several forum posts and someone suggested DL a free software for partition fixing or recovery. This software showed both disk when loaded but labeled my hdd as "bad disk". I'm currently running the wizard part of the program, but I'm out of thoughts and I feel like the HDd is shot and I'll have the purchase another one. I guess my thought is... Is there anyway to fix this or am I buying a new hdd and if so how can I prevent this from happening again or am I just getting bad apples!?

Hope I explained well enough... Certainly frustrated at this point
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Aaron
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there, Aaron.

It sounds like a coincidence that your second drive would fail as well. And yes, unfortunately I said "fail" as I/O (input/output) errors are never a good sign and judging by everything you've already mentioned, it really looks like the drive is done for. You could re-test it with its manufacturer's diagnostic tool, but I don't think it will show anything different.
The bottom line is this - you won't be able to repair the drive, however, if it's still under warranty, you should be able to get it replaced by the vendor you got it from or by the manufacturer of the drive.

If you think that there might be something wrong with your system, you could get it fully diagnosed by a computer service shop, just to see if...
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Hey there, Aaron.

It sounds like a coincidence that your second drive would fail as well. And yes, unfortunately I said "fail" as I/O (input/output) errors are never a good sign and judging by everything you've already mentioned, it really looks like the drive is done for. You could re-test it with its manufacturer's diagnostic tool, but I don't think it will show anything different.
The bottom line is this - you won't be able to repair the drive, however, if it's still under warranty, you should be able to get it replaced by the vendor you got it from or by the manufacturer of the drive.

If you think that there might be something wrong with your system, you could get it fully diagnosed by a computer service shop, just to see if there's anything alarming.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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Unfortunately I feel that you would be correct. I guess I just thought that maybe it was other components that could be causing this after the failure of the 2nd hard drive. I've purchased another HHD (WD this time vs Seagate) so we will see... if this other HDD dies... I will do everything with an ink pen and paper. =p

 
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