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RushTfe32

Well, my dad tried to turn on pc today, but it didn't. Just remains frozen at windows 7 logo.

After many hours trying to fix boot with Windows repair CD, and trying to find out what happened, I realized that it was a secondary disk problem!

Once I unplug it, Windows booted just fine.

So my next step was trying to hot swap it to my pc, but it stop working properly, shut down pc from start menu, but it didn't.

Had to hard shut it, don't like doing this to my pc haha, and then boot with a Linux live CD. Opened the disk tool, and tried to mount it. Of course, it didn't. Tool recognize it properly, but cannot mount it, as also couldn't fix it...

Any help? I need to do my best, he's got very important stuff in there, and I need to fix the hdd, or at least, be able to save the stuff out there.

Edit: my pc is not able to boot when this hdd is plugged in also.

Edit 2:

This is when mounting

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And this when checking file system.

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And the error that is being shown at smart status

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Hdd has no more than a year. I'd say 6 or 7 months

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You can't just hot swap drives from PCs like that...

There is a special option in your BIOS settings to enable/disable hot swapping SATA ports. You probably ruined something because hot swap is set to off by default.

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You can't just hot swap drives from PCs like that...

There is a special option in your BIOS settings to enable/disable hot swapping SATA ports. You probably ruined something because hot swap is set to off by default.

1st, hdd was damaged before hotswap.

2nd, I just hotswap from my pc, which I previously change to ahci mode, and enable hot swap on the sata ports I was going to use

Edit: could be a misunderstanding, I mean I plug it to my pc while it was on, then my pc start working weird, and was when I tried to turn off. The rest is explained before

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1st, hdd was damaged before hotswap. 2nd, I just hotswap from my pc, which I previously change to ahci mode, and enable hot swap on the sata ports I was going to use Edit: could be a misunderstanding, I mean I plug it to my pc while it was on, then my pc start working weird, and was when I tried to turn off. The rest is explained before

Have you tried formatting that drive? Try running Crystal Disk Info it will tell you all the problems there are with the HDD.

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Have you tried formatting that drive? Try running Crystal Disk Info it will tell you all the problems there are with the HDD.

Don't want to format it, there is a lot of important stuff in there. I know I'll be able to recover this after formatting, but it's a mess up, prefer trying to fix it first.

I CANT run crystal disc. I'm not able to boot Windows while this hdd is plugged in.

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Don't want to format it, there is a lot of important stuff in there. I know I'll be able to recover this after formatting, but it's a mess up, prefer trying to fix it first.

I CANT run crystal disc. I'm not able to boot Windows while this hdd is plugged in.

In your BIOS make sure you remove that drive completely from the boot order / boot drive priority list

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It's not on the boot order. Also, when it's plugged in, I can set my ssd to the boot list (ocz agility 3), I don't know why.

This hdd only appears on the boot override list.

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Edit: corrupt hdd is WD 1Tb (953896MB )

Edit 2: I managed to blow the shit off the list, but same result, Windows won't boot from ssd while hdd is plugged...

Edit 3: using some hiren boot tools, let's see if I can do this...

Any help is welcome!

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Simple. (the following works only if your SATA controller is set to AHCI mode)

Plug power only on the HDD.

Once your system has started Windows, now plug the SATA cable and wait a few seconds.

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Simple. (the following works only if your SATA controller is set to AHCI mode)

Plug power only on the HDD.

Once your system has started Windows, now plug the SATA cable and wait a few seconds.

You mean hot plugging, that's what I've done on my computer, and os gone weird

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Ok, it's because Windows is having serious trouble communicating with the drive. Meaning that the drive is dead.

Is the HDD doing any strange sounds, or is louder than normal? Usually these are indicators, sometimes it will make a strange sound before breaking soon before. But not always.

You have to get a new HDD. If you never did backups, then I am not sure about recovering options. They are centers that does this. but it is very costly, as they pretty much disassemble the HDD, but it onto a machine, all in a super clean room, dust free, and have their machine scan the drive and recuperate what data there is. You can look into that, if you have no backups and the data is very valuable to you.

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Ok, it's because Windows is having serious trouble communicating with the drive. Meaning that the drive is dead.

Is the HDD doing any strange sounds, or is louder than normal? Usually these are indicators, sometimes it will make a strange sound before breaking soon before. But not always.

You have to get a new HDD. If you never did backups, then I am not sure about recovering options. They are centers that does this. but it is very costly, as they pretty much disassemble the HDD, but it onto a machine, all in a super clean room, dust free, and have their machine scan the drive and recuperate what data there is. You can look into that, if you have no backups and the data is very valuable to you.

Not sounding strange. I guess it could have some bad sectors. Hiren boot has detected 32 by now, it's been 12h scanning, and it seems to have fixed those 32.

Gonna let it finish this. If it is only logical damage, I'm sure I'll be able to recover it.

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Fixed!

Hdd regenerator did a very well job, recovered 32 bad sectors.

Then booted windows from ssd, and it asked for a chkdisk, that I wasn't able to do before. After this, could get into Windows and see all the data.

Anyway, I told my dad, to put all his important stuff on the cloud, because a fixed hdd, could probably fail again, as my experience told me...

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