Bios update triggering HDD failure ??

[Archen Von Dreknov]

Hi

Weird story time !

I had an HDD running perfectly fine. This morning, I updated my Mobo's BIOS to get rid of AMD's sky high voltages and boosting problems. The update went just fine but when I rebooted into windows, My HDD was no longer detected by windows. BIOS could see it, but Windows couldn't see it anywhere even though it was correctly plugged in. 

After a bit a had the idea to change the SATA port it was plugged into which immediately fixed it... But now my HDD makes a screeching noise twice every exactly 10 seconds. Anyone has an idea as of what is going on ? Didn't really plan for an HDD replacement anytime soon...

One important point is that it works good as far as i can tell, and the windows monitor doesnt detect any read or write activity when the sound occurs

 

You'll find the exact sound it makes in the attachements.

 

Thanks in advance

 

EDIT : I just noticed the problem only occurs under windows. The said HDD is used as space to put heavy files with two partitions, one for my Windows and one for my Linux distro... So both OS use the drive, but the HDD remains perfectly silent under Linux even under write load.... could it be windows doing stuff on my drive ?

 

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Edited September 20, 2019 by Archen Von Dreknov

[Pickles von Brine]

Does the drive currently mount in windows? If it doesn't, then it is time to replace the drive. 

If you run HD Tune or Crystal Disk Info, what is the health of there drive. That doesn't sound right. 

 

A bios update will not cause drive failure. Just sounds like bad timing to me. 

[Aashirbad Thapa]

4 hours ago, Lord Xeb said:

Does the drive currently mount in windows? If it doesn't, then it is time to replace the drive. 

If you run HD Tune or Crystal Disk Info, what is the health of there drive. That doesn't sound right. 

 

A bios update will not cause drive failure. Just sounds like bad timing to me. 

Is it that the hardrive head is scratching the disk or the head might have been damaged?

[Pickles von Brine]

7 hours ago, Aashirbad Thapa said:

Is it that the hardrive head is scratching the disk or the head might have been damaged?

You wouldn't 100% know that unless it was opened. Something I recommend not doing. Though, it would click and make all kinds of horrible sounds.