I currently have a HDD that is failing to be recognised by Windows.
I should point out that this drive is a storage drive and does not host an OS.
At the point of failure my machine was having a slowdown, to which I restarted the machine; which is when I found out that my HDD was no longer being recognised.
However, windows does recognise the drive in Disk Management (See screenshots)
When the HDD is plug in and powered on it is making the following noise which may give some clues:
https://youtu.be/trbn8GNmeCwAt the moment I do not want to initialise the disk as there is data (photos) I need to pull off it first; anyone have any ideas what or how to fix the HDD?
Hard drive detailsSerial No: S1D1Y0JF
Model: ST1000DM003
DOM: 04/2012