My HDD is dying/dead and I don't know what to do

[bharathulaganathan]

3 days ago, My PC started shutting down after freezing for a few seconds. It used to start normally at times but the rest of the attempts used to go to BIOS where there will be no HDD to boot into. After a couple more days of such unreliable start-up, I decided to backup everything to an external hard drive but now the HDD is never being detected. Can't boot into Windows. Tried USB Linux, can't detect it there as well. Clonezilla also doesn't seem to detect the HDD. I have recorded and attached how it sounds when I start the HDD up. Is there any hopes of recovering files in it? What could be the problem. Can I fix it myself or take it to an technical expert?

 

 

[emosun]

nope thats dead , unending click of death

toss it and buy a new one , least you backed up your data

[MrSmiles]

Ah! Like the sound of my many CD players dying on me.

Maybe I should accept that they may be on the way out. Time for mp3 maybe.

[da na]

That's permanently dead, click of death. Looks like this on the inside - can't read the drive.

 

You could send it off for recovery but that's incredibly expensive. 

[bharathulaganathan]

29 minutes ago, emosun said:

nope thats dead , unending click of death

toss it and buy a new one , least you backed up your data

 

20 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

That's permanently dead, click of death. Looks like this on the inside - can't read the drive.

 

You could send it off for recovery but that's incredibly expensive. 

How probable is it that the data is recoverable? It would definitely be very costly, but I am willing to wait to save enough to recover it. I just want to know if I can keep the hopes up that I can recover may be like 90% of the data or is it that the sounds say something of completely damaged platter (is that what They call the shiny disk in which the data is stored?)

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, bharathulaganathan said:

How probable is it that the data is recoverable?

totally random %

Depends what happened to it , thats up for a lab to decide not us. The data better be worth a few k if you're going to send it to drive savers

[VirusDumb]

1 hour ago, bharathulaganathan said:

3 days ago, My PC started shutting down after freezing for a few seconds. It used to start normally at times but the rest of the attempts used to go to BIOS where there will be no HDD to boot into. After a couple more days of such unreliable start-up, I decided to backup everything to an external hard drive but now the HDD is never being detected. Can't boot into Windows. Tried USB Linux, can't detect it there as well. Clonezilla also doesn't seem to detect the HDD. I have recorded and attached how it sounds when I start the HDD up. Is there any hopes of recovering files in it? What could be the problem. Can I fix it myself or take it to an technical expert?

 

I actually had a similar problem some months ago, my PC freezing and the hard disk not detecting, but for me the thing was happening because the hard disk is at the end of it's life time (I've been using it since 2012), I checked it at first and it was really hot, I took it let it cool outside for sometime and it just booted fine and I tried to fix some corrupted sectors with Seagate sea tools but it didn't make any much of a change, well now the hard disk is still working but it sometimes doesn't detect and the games on it freeze and crash while trying to save, I don't have a lot of issues with that as I also have a SSD, but yeah the hard disk is going to die soon.

 

 

Depending on how old your hard disk is I'd suggest you to backup your data, and then get it fixed by a technical expert (only if it's younger than 5 years)

[bharathulaganathan]

5 minutes ago, VirusDumb said:

I actually had a similar problem some months ago, my PC freezing and the hard disk not detecting, but for me the thing was happening because the hard disk is at the end of it's life time (I've been using it since 2012), I checked it at first and it was really hot, I took it let it cool outside for sometime and it just booted fine and I tried to fix some corrupted sectors with Seagate sea tools but it didn't make any much of a change, well now the hard disk is still working but it sometimes doesn't detect and the games on it freeze and crash while trying to save, I don't have a lot of issues with that as I also have a SSD, but yeah the hard disk is going to die soon.

 

 

Depending on how old your hard disk is I'd suggest you to backup your data, and then get it fixed by a technical expert (only if it's younger than 5 years)

The issue for Me is that the HDD is not being detected at all and it is My boot drive. So can't boot to windows to backup anything. Even tried other methods like flashing backup software into a USB but even then the HDD is not being detected. It has some very important data in it so I am not risking unless someone quotes a perfectly working method. Planning to take it to a data recovery center.

[SydneyBrokeIt]

14 minutes ago, bharathulaganathan said:

The issue for Me is that the HDD is not being detected at all and it is My boot drive. So can't boot to windows to backup anything. Even tried other methods like flashing backup software into a USB but even then the HDD is not being detected. It has some very important data in it so I am not risking unless someone quotes a perfectly working method. Planning to take it to a data recovery center.

There is no perfectly working method, unfortunately.  Even data recovery specialists don't have 100% success rates.

[HQuan]

As everyone said, it's totally dead. Click of death...

(the arms are broken for more specific)

 

Thankfully, nearly all recovery center can recover data for you in half an hour, but, this is very expensive. With that amount of money, you could buy 5 more SSD.

 

If it contains very very important data, recommend you to sent it to center that will only take money if data are revived. (like one Linus once mentioned)

 

 

 

[VirusDumb]

8 hours ago, bharathulaganathan said:

The issue for Me is that the HDD is not being detected at all and it is My boot drive. So can't boot to windows to backup anything. Even tried other methods like flashing backup software into a USB but even then the HDD is not being detected. It has some very important data in it so I am not risking unless someone quotes a perfectly working method. Planning to take it to a data recovery center.

When I said backup your data I actually meant taking it to a data recovery center.