Seagate Barracude 500gb

[Nozza]

Hi all, trying to recover a few files from a faulty HDD, Not exactly the most adept at this so I'll lay out the situation and what I've tried:

-Hard disk on my mother's computer seemed to fail(no boot drive error)
-Swapped out for a new HDD got the system installed everything working fine.
-Brought Faulty HDD home and set it up in one of my free bays. System started taking a very long time to boot(booting of SSD).
-Shut down the system, removed the HDD and turned system on. Hot swapped the HDD into a drive bay.
-Drive not showing up in my computer, volume not showing up in DISKPART prompt
-Drive IS showing in Disk management through windows. No drive letter associated, showing partitioned, active, and primary. Only options available is to convert to dynamic disk, or delete. no other options.
-Attempted to use Recuva to see what files were able to be recovered, showed on that list but would receive an error stating "unable to determine filesystem."
-Removed every drive from my PC except the faulty one, nothing showed in BIOS, got boot error.

Any suggestions, help, or avenues for recovery would be greatly appreciated. I will attempt to browse the forums to see if there's anything that may be able to help me as well, or if anyone could point me in the direction to specific threads.

Thanks.

[fzabkar]

-Drive IS showing in Disk management through windows. No drive letter associated, showing partitioned, active, and primary. Only options available is to convert to dynamic disk, or delete. no other options.
-Attempted to use Recuva to see what files were able to be recovered, showed on that list but would receive an error stating "unable to determine filesystem."

So Recuva showed you a recovery tree but was unable to determine the file system? How is that possible? :?

I'm not familiar with Recuva. Instead would it be possible for you to show us a screenshot of DMDE's Partitions window?

http://dmde.com/ (freeware disc editor)

Could you show us the drive's SMART report using a tool such as CrystalDiskInfo?

http://crystalmark.info/software/Crysta ... dex-e.html

Look for reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors.