I have a hybrid 2TB hdd/ssd (Seagate ST2000DX001) which, a couple of weeks ago, began to intermittently make Windows 10 unresponsive. Checking the event viewer revealed that "the disk has a bad sector." I immediately got a new HDD, installed Win10 from scratch, re-connected the old drive as a secondary, and began copying selected directories over to the new drive. This was going fine for a while, then the old drive stopped putting out.
I powered down the system, and the drive has not been recognized by the bios since. It is spinning up, but the mobo refuses to see it. I have tried different sata ports, even putting it in an external enclosure and connecting it via an esata port - still no go. When powered up, I hear the disk physically spin up and make one of two sound sequences - three bursts in one, four in the other with one of them being higher pitched. I uploaded a couple of MP3s of what it sounds like to Dropbox -
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9miqy4ooywzt ... egKaa?dl=0Can anyone tell from the sound of it what the issue could be? If I can't get the mobo to recognize the drive, are there any tools I can use to get into the thing and give it a kick in the pants? There is still data on the drive that I'd really like to get off of it - trying to avoid spending the $550 to get the data back.