HDD died while defragging?

[KingSlayerx]

Hey everyone.

The day was going really well until my HDD died on me while i was defragging.

 

Everything was fine I never had any problems with the HDD, health was good, no errors, often defrags, it suddenly died.

 

While it was defragging at 50% i heard the HDD power go off and on and everything froze except the mouse.

 

Cant go in windows and the HDD isnt detectable...

The physical parts inside the HDD look fine and move correctly... I wonder whats wrong and what happen...

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[NMS]

What is the model and for how long have you been using it? Perhaps its time ran off.

Also, the circuit board itself could've died.

Unless you had some vital information on it, I wouldn't even bother looking into it even further. As recovery options aren't cheap.

[porina]

Defragmenting is a load on the HD, and it also moves data around. Maybe there's a bad area that was otherwise unused up to that point, then it hit it... It happens. Replace it and move on.

[KingSlayerx]

13 minutes ago, NMS said:

What is the model and for how long have you been using it? Perhaps its time ran off.

Also, the circuit board itself could've died.

Unless you had some vital information on it, I wouldn't even bother looking into it even further. As recovery options aren't cheap.

1000days powered on

Seagate 500gb

[NMS]

3 minutes ago, MasterJoaoPT said:

1000days powered on

Seagate 500gb

Constantly without any breaks? Was it a NAS one?

If it wasn't, then there's your answer.

 

PS. I miss that panda from your avatar. Good old days.

[AshleyAshes]

20 minutes ago, MasterJoaoPT said:

Everything was fine I never had any problems with the HDD, health was good, no errors, often defrags, it suddenly died.

Saying 'Everything was fine until it wasn't' doesn't really mean anything because this is the story behind the vast majority of things breaking.  'It wasn't broken, it worked fine, then it broke'.

[KingSlayerx]

12 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Saying 'Everything was fine until it wasn't' doesn't really mean anything because this is the story behind the vast majority of things breaking.  'It wasn't broken, it worked fine, then it broke'.

Thanks for ur useless comment, usually hdd do signals before dying fyi.

[AshleyAshes]

6 minutes ago, MasterJoaoPT said:

Thanks for ur useless comment, usually hdd do signals before dying fyi.

No, not usually.  Sometimes, sure.  A bad sector here or there, stuff like that.  But stuff will totally fail.  I've literally rebooted computers only to see the HDD dead on the next power cycle.  I've had SSDs suddenly stop responding and that was it.

 

So, no, my comment is useless.  What's useless is your assumption that the drive was 'fine' until it died is an indication of anything other than the fact that it died.

[mynameisjuan]

19 minutes ago, MasterJoaoPT said:

Thanks for ur useless comment, usually hdd do signals before dying fyi.

No AshleyAshes is right. 

 

Back when I was a desktop tech, I would see PCs on for months without a single problem, no signs of it going bad. Well would you know on reboot, shits the bed. See once booted or started, a lot of circuits can continue to operate after a cap is blown or a resistor is damaged. Once it trys to boot it will fail though. 

 

You comment is as bad as what my boss says. NOT EVERYTHING TELLS YOU WHEN ITS FAILING! 

[SupaKomputa]

9 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

No, not usually.  Sometimes, sure.  A bad sector here or there, stuff like that.  But stuff will totally fail.  I've literally rebooted computers only to see the HDD dead on the next power cycle.  I've had SSDs suddenly stop responding and that was it.

 

So, no, my comment is useless.  What's useless is your assumption that the drive was 'fine' until it died is an indication of anything other than the fact that it died.

I've recovered a dead hdd from a nas. It was presumed dead, not spinning.

Then it was stored for a year, then someone accidentally using the drive and it turns on.

Did a hdd checkup and yes so many bad sectors and warnings in the smart record.

I suppose it got something to do with the nas frequent power blackout.

Now i used it as a external drive for offline storing redundant files.

Create a couple of partitions that skips the broken sectors, and it work.

 

so before trying to trash the drive maybe a little rescue effort would be nice.

if it turns on, backup the drive and use it for something less important, until it really died.

[NelizMastr]

Even if it wasn't dead yet, your dumb ass opening it killed it for good  

[AshleyAshes]

7 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

I've recovered a dead hdd from a nas. It was presumed dead, not spinning.

Then it was stored for a year, then someone accidentally using the drive and it turns on.

Did a hdd checkup and yes so many bad sectors and warnings in the smart record.

...

if it turns on, backup the drive and use it for something less important, until it really died.

I think on would be insane to keep a drive like that in service even if they got it 'working again'. o___o

[SupaKomputa]

9 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I think on would be insane to keep a drive like that in service even if they got it 'working again'. o___o

yeah why not, moving some porn from office to my house.

i wound't care if it died.