Post-resurrection HDD causing problems

[PixlRabt]

Hello internets,

 

So yesterday on a whim I plugged in a 2.5" Seagate Momentus 7200 500GB hard drive from one of the first laptops I owned, a Compaq something or other. It had been dead for a number of years following a sudden shutdown of the pc that caused some extent of corruption to the drive. Long story short the laptop wouldn't boot and when I connected the drive to a SATA to USB adapter the main partition was unreadable. Yesterday, however, I tried to give recovering the drive another shot, and after running a chkdsk /f on the drive was able to have the drive functioning normally again to my amazement, since it had been dead for three years. I then transferred one of the two windows user folders to get back all my documents and files and such, before disconnecting the drive as I didn't want to leave it running too long. Now when I went to reconnect the drive to retrieve the other user folder, trying to access the drive causes Windows Explorer to become unresponsive. 

So is the drive dead for good now? Would running chkdsk /f again be worth a shot? Just thought I'd get a second opinion before I fiddle with it more and potentially lose the drive again. 

[KRKATANAKID]

5 minutes ago, tharrison14 said:

Hello internets,

 

So yesterday on a whim I plugged in a 2.5" Seagate Momentus 7200 500GB hard drive from one of the first laptops I owned, a Compaq something or other. It had been dead for a number of years following a sudden shutdown of the pc that caused some extent of corruption to the drive. Long story short the laptop wouldn't boot and when I connected the drive to a SATA to USB adapter the main partition was unreadable. Yesterday, however, I tried to give recovering the drive another shot, and after running a chkdsk /f on the drive was able to have the drive functioning normally again to my amazement, since it had been dead for three years. I then transferred one of the two windows user folders to get back all my documents and files and such, before disconnecting the drive as I didn't want to leave it running too long. Now when I went to reconnect the drive to retrieve the other user folder, trying to access the drive causes Windows Explorer to become unresponsive. 

So is the drive dead for good now? Would running chkdsk /f again be worth a shot? Just thought I'd get a second opinion before I fiddle with it more and potentially lose the drive again. 

If you plug it in and go to Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Storage, do the partitions on that drive still show up properly? If not, do they show up in Diskpart?

[PixlRabt]

14 minutes ago, KRKATANAKID said:

If you plug it in and go to Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Storage, do the partitions on that drive still show up properly? If not, do they show up in Diskpart?

Computer Management becomes unresponsive when the drive is connected, and the command prompt won't process commands while the drive is connected. That is, command prompt wouldn't open until I disconnected the drive, then it wouldn't run diskpart until I again disconnected the drive and so on. It was listed after "list disk" though, as my desktop only has two internal drives and list disk listed three, the third being around the correct size at 465 GB.

Edit: because I have to disconnect the drive to process commands it becomes unselected in diskpart and therefore I can't have it list the partitions.