Hard drive will not initialize

[citizen_snips]

Hey I'm a little stumped while dealing with a problem on my machine. Last night out of nowhere one of my drives decided to completely stop working. After researching it more today I've discovered that the drive will not initialize through the Windows Disk Management application and the BIOS does not recognize the size of the drive itself. I've tried swapping out the SATA cable, plugging the cable into another SATA port, and a full on CHKDSK for my entire system. None of that has made a difference. I thought to try to repair or recover the data through a partition program but for whatever reason the drive does not show up there. It only appears in Device Manager and the Disk Management functionality. Is there any way to recover the data from the drive or am I SOL?

[leclod]

Do you see the drive in disk management or not ?

[citizen_snips]

yea it appears in disk management and device manager but nowhere else

[leclod]

I'd try the drive in another computer.

If it doesn't help I'd probably try to initialyse it in disk management. Then if it appears in explorer empty, use some recovery tool.

Or you could send it in, but that's expensive.

But I'd have little hope and if there's nothing important on that drive I'd just forget it.

 

Edited May 8, 2023 by leclod

[citizen_snips]

I've tried it in another computer and I still get the same issue. When I try to initialize the drive in disk management, I get the error message "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error"

[leclod]

The drive is probably dead. I hope you had the data backed up.

Edited May 8, 2023 by leclod

[citizen_snips]

I was afraid of that, the irony is I just got a drive to back my data up on. Consummate sadness

[leclod]

I use HD Sentinel, you could install the free version and see if something comes out

[citizen_snips]

Thanks for the shout out on that! I'll give it a try