Hard drive not working properly

[Froger96]

Hi, i have a western digital media player connected to my tv with two hard drives plugged in.

one is an older 500gb and the second is a less than 2 years old 2tb. (both external drives)

and recently my brother had been adding some stuff to it on the pc and changing files on it etc...

and then when he plugged it back into the WDMP (western digital media player) it work at the start, then he noticed some files were not there, and as he went out of the folder, and went back in, even less files were there, until the hard drive stopped working completely.

so i removed the hard drive from its external casing to expose the sata connectors and plugged it into my rig, and it didn't show up. but after two minutes, i noticed the pcb of the drive was very hot to the touch.

this drive has ll of our films and stuff on it, and we don't have much in the way of a back up. does anyone have any idea's what is wrong or how to fix it?

 

thanks in advance

[iWearKiltz]

sounds likes the drive is on its way out.

 

despite that, ask if he "safely removed hardware", but i highly doubt that will be the cause. sounds like a genuine HDD failure. sorry mate!

 

 

edit: you might be able to take it into some place and get some data off the disk, as it might just be the reader dying. that's if you really want the data

[Froger96]

not really what i wanted to hear to be honest

[LogicalDrm]

So older drive is one with problems? or both? Does hdd show up on BIOS? Does it make noise? If it shows on bios, file system could be corrupted. Get Linux live-cd and boot on that. For me it has worked when hdd was corrupted in windows. Some files might be lost but thats problem with digital media. Thats why dvd backupping is for. Drive getting hot should not be really issue since just 45C feels hot to human hand. 

[Froger96]

ok, the new one is the problem.

it does not spin up.

it does not show up in bios.

but the PCB does get really hot.