Hard drive stopped working,

[x2006nzl]

Hello, thanks for all the help i'm slowly making progress,
now after messing around with cleaning the pcb board the bios now recognizes it, however it will not boot up I get a windows boot error message, I also tried seeing if it would be recognized while another hard drive was running
i attached pictures what should I do next
thanks

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[sathyan]

if your drive is detecting properly in the BIOS as show,your first step will be to make an image/clone of this drive and run a good data recovery tool(r-studio) on the cloned drive to get your data.
Clone the drive immediately, but stop the process if the drive starts making clicking noise while accessing the drive or encounters lots of bad sectors.

[positivebit]

agree , also i add:
stop if the cloning become slower and slower.

[dick]

@x2006nzl It is probably too late now to advise you to start cloning immediately.
This might be the one and only time you get to this point before the drive dies on you!

[x2006nzl]

Hello again thanks for the help, an update, I never done anything to the hard drive, all I did was today I tried using it as an extra hard drive, I noticed when windows 7 booted up off of my normal hard drive it hung up at the windows emblem for about 5 minutes, then it booted up and instsalled the hard drive however it does not appear when you goto start then click on my computer. However if you right click on computer and then click on manage it shows the hardrive with no partition and shows that 139 gb are free. Any advice on what I should do now to get my files?
thanks

[SquaL]

Hi, don't think there is much you can do. Safer to contact lcoughey. There are a few others that I know of in Canada as well.

[x2006nzl]

Hello thanks for the reply I got a hold of him I don't feel the data is worth $300+-$1500+ , any other ideas thanks

[sathyan]

Do not use the drive to check for files as you mentioned.

Clone the drive, before it dies.
Use
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/

Clone faulty drive to another working drive of larger capacity.

Then run recovery tools like R-studio on the cloned drive(not the original drive)

good luck

[labtech]

Hello thanks for the reply I got a hold of him I don't feel the data is worth $300+-$1500+ , any other ideas thanks

Unfortunately, the design of the drive and the type of failure requires an advanced skill set of knowledge, experience and tools in order to successfully recover the data. Sadly, none of these are easy to acquire.

At this point, it is of matter of risk assessment and determing the value of Data vs. Money, such as: DIY is high risk with very low chance of successful recovery and a a minimum of ~$80 vs. A good Pro who is low risk with high recovery chance and higher cost, likely over ~$600.

If you want DIY still as you seem to strongly suggest, then all "ideas" have already been talked about here on the forum.

The main problem you will run into is actually not understanding how things work and as result make mistakes. Technique can't be taught over a forum.

Want to increase your DIY chances a bit? Buy three of the same model drives like.the one you have failed. Take them apart, swap components and run tests. See how they are meant to work and establish if the drive work after swapping components and then see if they still work after returning the components back to their respective drives. Assess your findings and then realize the chances you have at recovering the failed drive. For general understanding, I suggest you start with the PCB as that is the easiest thing to rule out. Keep in mind that certain specifications have to be matched according to the type of failure in order to be successful and also increase the chance of finding compatible drives (as they are becoming scarce) and save money. I predict this three drive experiment to cost an average person somewhere in the $300 range, about 2-3 weeks of tinkering, with potential for very little gain as far as knowledge. Chances of DIY recovery maybe went from ~5% to maybe ~10%, if lucky and in ideal situations with regard to the media damage.

Best wishes