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I haven't been able to find any other exact cases of this online, and I'm really at a loss. My backup for this drive is a little out of date, so I'd really like to save it if I can. This is my last resort before I send it to a data recovery sender.
I'm running Windows 10 with an MSI Z97 motherboard.
A couple of days ago my computer became unresponsive while troubleshooting an unrelated issue (which involved a registry clean that by then had already finished) and I had to force restart. When I tried to boot again it got stuck on the booting screen before I restarted again and got to the recovery screen, which failed. The only way I could get it to boot was to remove my secondary drive, a 2TB Seagate Barracuda.
The drive spins up and BIOS does recognize the drive and returns the model number when it is plugged into a SATA port, but it takes significantly longer to load the drives list when it's plugged in vs when only my other drives are plugged in. Plugging it in a hot-pluggable SATA port after Windows has already booted causes file explorer, disk manager, EaseUS, and Seagate's diagnostic tools to freeze until I unplug it. [strike]I picked up a USB3 to SATA cable today, but despite the cable indicating that it is powered, the drive won't even spin up.[/strike] (Tried it on a healthy drive and it didn't work either, it's the cable that's busted.)
Is there anything I can do before I empty my savings account? Any answers are greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I left SeaTools on while writing this and it actually detected the drive after a few minutes. It has passed the SMART test so far, I'll update later with my findings.
EDIT 2: Short and long fixes on Seatools don't complete and it fails the self test. Minitool Partition Manager actually recognizes it as an NTFS drive with its same name and letter, not just "Local Disk (Q
" as explorer showed it. I will update soon with anything else I can find.
I'm running Windows 10 with an MSI Z97 motherboard.
A couple of days ago my computer became unresponsive while troubleshooting an unrelated issue (which involved a registry clean that by then had already finished) and I had to force restart. When I tried to boot again it got stuck on the booting screen before I restarted again and got to the recovery screen, which failed. The only way I could get it to boot was to remove my secondary drive, a 2TB Seagate Barracuda.
The drive spins up and BIOS does recognize the drive and returns the model number when it is plugged into a SATA port, but it takes significantly longer to load the drives list when it's plugged in vs when only my other drives are plugged in. Plugging it in a hot-pluggable SATA port after Windows has already booted causes file explorer, disk manager, EaseUS, and Seagate's diagnostic tools to freeze until I unplug it. [strike]I picked up a USB3 to SATA cable today, but despite the cable indicating that it is powered, the drive won't even spin up.[/strike] (Tried it on a healthy drive and it didn't work either, it's the cable that's busted.)
Is there anything I can do before I empty my savings account? Any answers are greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I left SeaTools on while writing this and it actually detected the drive after a few minutes. It has passed the SMART test so far, I'll update later with my findings.
EDIT 2: Short and long fixes on Seatools don't complete and it fails the self test. Minitool Partition Manager actually recognizes it as an NTFS drive with its same name and letter, not just "Local Disk (Q
" as explorer showed it. I will update soon with anything else I can find.
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