Is this possibly a dead hard disk?

[echoxxx]

Booted up my pc and suddenly i noticed that my other hard disk not showing up on my explorer at all, Weirdly enough the disk manager reads it but it only says "INCORRECT FUNCTION" tried to initialize it but to my dismay it says the "Incorrect Function" error , tried doing it in the command prompt but the same error occurs

 

Also tried cleaning it and formatting it via cmd. but to no avail

 

Can this disk possibly be fixed without replacing it? I don't want to let my other disk die as i mainly use it for personal stuffs.

Any ideas how? or should i just don't bother and find a replacement one. But I pretty much prefer fixing this if possible.

Cheers!

 

[Needfuldoer]

The fact that Diskpart sees it as a "0 GB" drive doesn't fill me with confidence.

 

Try checking it with CrystalDiskInfo. (Download and unzip it on a different computer, then copy it to your Windows installer flash drive. You can run it from the command line.)

 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/9.3.2/CrystalDiskInfo9_3_2.zip/download

 

If this is a mechanical hard drive, is it making any repeating, rhythmic noises at regular intervals?

  

8 minutes ago, echoxxx said:

Also tried cleaning it and formatting it via cmd. but to no avail

 

Can this disk possibly be fixed without replacing it? I don't want to let my other disk die as i mainly use it for personal stuffs.

You have backups, right? One bad disk won't "infect" a second disk and cause it to fail unprompted, but you can never have too many backups.

[echoxxx]

9 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

The fact that Diskpart sees it as a "0 GB" drive doesn't fill me with confidence.

 

Try checking it with CrystalDiskInfo. (Download and unzip it on a different computer, then copy it to your Windows installer flash drive. You can run it from the command line.)

 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/9.3.2/CrystalDiskInfo9_3_2.zip/download

 

If this is a mechanical hard drive, is it making any repeating, rhythmic noises at regular intervals?

  

You have backups, right? One bad disk won't "infect" a second disk and cause it to fail unprompted, but you can never have too many backups.

That's the wierd thing, the drive has no indication of starting to fail no whirring sounds no anything, it just suddenly did that after I shutted it down and booting it the next day. 

 

I'll try checking it via crystaldisk and will let you know the results.

 

Fortunately I have one backup external drive but I mainly use it for storing needed data on the go. 

 

I'll try to install Windows there for the meantime