I am hoping that someone here can help me out I was brought a laptop a couple of days ago that had a crashed windows install or at least that is what I was told ahead of time they also brought a nice shinny new drive which was installed as they wanted a larger drive anyway. Ok enough with the back story

well when I hooked up the old drive to my pc to transfer documents over I find a dead drive or to be exact a spinning drive that the PC can't detect it freezes at the bios screena dn windows if i hook it up after boot. I need any thoughts on this if someone would be so kind so that if needed I can recommend it be sent out to a recovery shop.

Thanks,
Yonu

High chance the drive has mechanical problems or just bad sectors if lucky, but one would not know for sure until performing a professional in depth diagnostic.

If you want to send the drive to a pro and get some recommendations for one here on the forum, then post your location by country and even city.

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I was thinking mechanical thanks.

I am located in Fayetteville, NC US

I would recommend Jono-ats, he is in Atlanta, GA and closest one to you.

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