I have a 500gb seagate drive that recently stopped working. I was in windows and windows just stopped responding as I guess the hard drive had died so after a bit I just force restarted the machine. When I tried to reboot the hard drive was not detected.
Once I took apart my case I realized the hdd wasnt even spinning up when the machine started. No beeps or anything, just dead. I tried as many tricks as I could think of to get it going. I tried gently tapping it and shaking it along the disc's axis to try and relieve any "sticktion". I tried putting it in the freezer overnight and nothing. The only thing I could think was maybe the logic board had gone so I ordered another hdd in the exact same model and switched them out. Now the hard drive spins up but is still not detected.
My next step was to eliminate my home computer as being the problem, since I work in IT I just took the hdd's (the new one with the old one's logic board and the old hdd with the new logic board) to work. My work computer does not recognize either hard drive. The old one (w/ new logic board) still spins up but the new one (w/ old logic board) does not.
I downloaded seatools and the program didnt detect the drive. I looked for both drives in disk management and no dice.
Honestly I am at a loss... I can't really believe that the hard drive would so spectacularly fail like that so that it cannot even be detected.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks!
Once I took apart my case I realized the hdd wasnt even spinning up when the machine started. No beeps or anything, just dead. I tried as many tricks as I could think of to get it going. I tried gently tapping it and shaking it along the disc's axis to try and relieve any "sticktion". I tried putting it in the freezer overnight and nothing. The only thing I could think was maybe the logic board had gone so I ordered another hdd in the exact same model and switched them out. Now the hard drive spins up but is still not detected.
My next step was to eliminate my home computer as being the problem, since I work in IT I just took the hdd's (the new one with the old one's logic board and the old hdd with the new logic board) to work. My work computer does not recognize either hard drive. The old one (w/ new logic board) still spins up but the new one (w/ old logic board) does not.
I downloaded seatools and the program didnt detect the drive. I looked for both drives in disk management and no dice.
Honestly I am at a loss... I can't really believe that the hard drive would so spectacularly fail like that so that it cannot even be detected.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks!
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