Hello friends, I have a dead drive which is making weird
noises.
The drive used to show up in disk management but no software recovery tools were able to access it, and now it's gone from everywhere including the BIOS. Back then the only option I had in disk management was to initialize the disk, but I didn't do that because I thought I'd lose the data. I don't think I damaged the disk since it was mostly inactive until the last month of it's life(had it for at least 2 years), and it was always sitting calmly in my case.
I can see some signs of corrosion? on the PCB/contact points and was wondering if this could be the problem.
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Could someone try to identify the issue and let me know if I'd be able to fix this drive, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!