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Failing hard drives?

Pat32312

Hey recently my 3 hard drives failed on me. Only my Samsung Evo 840 seemed to survive. I still have no idea what happened. One of the drives where about 2 moths old. Now I can see them all show in bios but none in my actual windows. If any one has any ideas on what to try or how to recover the data please tell me.

Any ways I would like to get new reliable hard drives here's my current specs

Cpu - i7 4790k

CPUs cooler - corsair h100i

GPu - gtx 980

Storage - Samsung Evo 840 120gb (os)

Motherboard - asus hero vii rog

I am looking for ssd for my games and possibly programs. And a storage hard drive that won't fail.

Also my pc freezes sometimes I think it's due to my cpu I used the extreme tweaking tool and I don't think the mother board correctly adjusted my cpu.

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What type of HDDs.. for example what company etc... -_-

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Stop using Seagate drives and get yourself a Hitachi Deskstar/Ultrastar.

 

On the subject of getting the data back... you're gonna need a data recovery service, and that shit is expeennnnnnsive...

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Western union green 2 tb

Segate something

And Samsung something

And my main ssd but the 3 hdds failed so I am looking in some help to recover info and what hard drives should I get next

Edit- the hard drives where not dropped, tucked or any thing that could externally damage them. They all stopped working at the same time and when I plug them in to my second computer they won't even initialise

But you can see the. Fine in bios.

Any one have an idea why they done that? They do show in windows device manager so I guess I can recover some data correct?

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Hey there Pat32312,
 
Could you post a screenshot of your Device Manager? I would make sure all the latest OS and driver updates are installed. Also try swapping drives around the SATA ports and with different SATA and power cables and see if that makes any difference. 
Have you done any changes hardware-wise or software-wise to your system?
I would recommend getting a diagnostic utility from the HDDs' manufacturers and checking their health and if they will be recognized at all. For the Western Digital Green drive that would be WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=vUCgVJ I'd recommend running both the quick and the extended tests in order to check the drive's S.M.A.R.T. status as well as for any bad sectors.
 
Post back with the test results once you are done. :)
 
Feel free to ask if you happen to have any questions.
 
Captain_WD.

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Hey there Pat32312,
 
Could you post a screenshot of your Device Manager? I would make sure all the latest OS and driver updates are installed. Also try swapping drives around the SATA ports and with different SATA and power cables and see if that makes any difference. 
Have you done any changes hardware-wise or software-wise to your system?
I would recommend getting a diagnostic utility from the HDDs' manufacturers and checking their health and if they will be recognized at all. For the Western Digital Green drive that would be WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=vUCgVJ I'd recommend running both the quick and the extended tests in order to check the drive's S.M.A.R.T. status as well as for any bad sectors.
 
Post back with the test results once you are done. :)
 
Feel free to ask if you happen to have any questions.
 
Captain_WD.

 

 

Here is a quick scan  https://gyazo.com/487b5011926ba97acbb7a4f446cc8c97

and https://gyazo.com/cac44163881e8abb5ef56a4233e2c5d4

https://gyazo.com/f5b6b63cc7ca9c4e9017e97efcc8328f

How ever it does not load its partitions i had it split to 3 partitions and non of them load in windows. 

https://gyazo.com/f5e094c7f12248462146b8bf0e05bd86

Also apparently it shows as D:/windows where as it was just used for storage. 

I tried to mess with the sata cables and so on. 

How ever i went thought a lot of trouble to just make them show in device manager i had to mess around with the BIOS in order for them to be shown. 

Other 2 hard drives are just red hehe. But looks like this one survived? but why are the partitions not being loaded? 

https://gyazo.com/a026367788dc5b14033c1f890db18784

https://gyazo.com/15bc9a01d4b4046311ced203b47c18de

 

Btw i am also looking for around 500GB SSD for gaming any recommendations? 

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Have you used the "Windows" drive for an old OS or something else? If the drives pass the diagnostic tests they should be good to use and there's probably something wrong with the drives' format. What settings did you change in the BIOS? Can you back up your files and fill the drives with zeros (you can use the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool for that)? This should show you if the problem is a software one or there's indeed something wrong with the drives.
 
Captain_WD.

If this helped you, like and choose it as best answer - you might help someone else with the same issue. ^_^
WDC Representative, http://www.wdc.com/ 

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I am wondering whether the extreme tweaking tool could have raised the bclk frequency and if that could have caused the drive failures. Just a thought, hopefully someone may be able to confirm or deny this.

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