help Strange SATA issues

[_Drive]

First time post, so I’ll get straight to the point

Edit: Apologies if this was supposed to be in the Troubleshooting tab, as I said, first post and I just kinda saw “troubleshooting” under the “motherboard” area

 

To start off with, my setup is as follows:

i7 7740X

Asus TUF x299 mark 1

EVGA 1080 hybrid cooled

Seagate Ironwolf 2TB drive

 

As of late, I’ve been having a very strange issue where the BIOS of the board can detect my boot hard drive, but it can't boot to it, and I get an ”Inaccessible boot drive” BSoD. Thing is, diskpart can't see the drive, a new windows install can't see the drive, chkdsk can’t even see the drive.

 

Things I've tried:

Chkdsk, fixboot, diskpart

Result: None of which worked

New windows install

Result: Windows install didn't see any hard drive

Using SATA to USB to check the drive

Result: Drive is perfectly fine, used chkdsk, fixboot, the whole lot

Edit: I also tried:

SATA to USB directly to the computer

Result: Booted to save mode but couldn’t get to windows. Startup repair couldn’t make heads or tails of it either

Different SATA, SATA power, and SATA motherboard ports

Result: No change in behaviour

Doing Fixmbr on the drive from my laptop

Result: I forgot how or my laptop can’t. Says there isn’t that command

 

 

 

My theory: Recently we had a blackout in the middle of the night from a thunderstorm. My guess is that there was some kind of power surge that did something

 

I’ll be updating this if I remember anything and if I try something someone's suggested

Edited June 29, 2019 by _Drive
More info

[Airdragonz]

Try using a different power cable, a different sata cable, and a different port on your motherboard. If drive still crashes after all that, then it's likely the drive or its disk controller that's bad 

[_Drive]

6 hours ago, Airdragonz said:

Try using a different power cable, a different sata cable, and a different port on your motherboard. If drive still crashes after all that, then it's likely the drive or its disk controller that's bad 

Forgot to mention, I have tried different cables, ports, all that. Even used the SATA to USB into my computer. For that one it only booted into safe mode, but never got into windows

 

Edit: Edited the original post with updated info

Edited June 28, 2019 by _Drive
Updated

[Airdragonz]

5 hours ago, _Drive said:

Forgot to mention, I have tried different cables, ports, all that. Even used the SATA to USB into my computer. For that one it only booted into safe mode, but never got into windows

 

Edit: Edited the original post with updated info

My guess is that the disk controller died from possibly that power surge you mentioned. Not really sure if there's any way to extract the data or fix the drive yourself. Your best bet is probably going to be sending the drive to a professional repair center.

[_Drive]

On 6/28/2019 at 8:35 AM, Airdragonz said:

My guess is that the disk controller died from possibly that power surge you mentioned. Not really sure if there's any way to extract the data or fix the drive yourself. Your best bet is probably going to be sending the drive to a professional repair center.

Well, the drive itself is fine. I used the SATA to USB adapter and connected it to my laptop and did a chkdsk, bootfix, and the like on it from there and it seemed okay. Accessed the files alright. I don’t know if I’ve tried the fixmbr command...

 

Edit: Either I forgot how and did it wrong, or I’m using the wrong command