Hdd Not Detected - Need To Save Data

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Last night while working on my pc one off my hdd ( 300 gb Seagate) just disapeared from the my computer menu,i rebooted the pc & basicly tried everything that i know of for the motherboard to detect the hdd.I noticed that the disk do spin up & after a while gets very hot.Tried it on 4 different pc's now,but the problem persists.Is there any way that i can save some of my data on the drive?(I did'nt back up & need some of the data & photo's on the drive)
 
Does the hard drive get detected in the BIOS but not in the operating system, or not even in the BIOS? (I'm going to recommend SpinRite soon :p)
 
mechanical said:
Not even in the bios.How will spinrite help me?
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Maybe it wont - I've never been in that position so I cant say definitively either way.

If the data is important then you might want to stop powering it up and send it to a data recovery service.
 
Check the board on the HD - especially the smaller of the two surface mount ICs - if it looks burnt, that is the problem
 
Swopped the circuit board with a identical hdd,still nothing.Both boards working on the second drive
 
There's an old trick - you try it at your own risk.

Hold the HDD in an horizontal position, then twist it clockwise/anticlockwise so the platters and motor will move. Then plug it back in and see if it spins up.

If it does, then the motor might be faulty - if it still does not spin up then you'll need to get it to a data recovery specialist or dump it. :)

It's either the HDD spindle motor or the voice coil that's developed a fault.
 
mechanical said:
Last night while working on my pc one off my hdd ( 300 gb Seagate) just disapeared from the my computer menu,i rebooted the pc & basicly tried everything that i know of for the motherboard to detect the hdd.I noticed that the disk do spin up & after a while gets very hot.Tried it on 4 different pc's now,but the problem persists.Is there any way that i can save some of my data on the drive?(I did'nt back up & need some of the data & photo's on the drive)
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The first multiplatter drives have a fault, I lost 500gb of data when moving a Freecom FSB and the problem is that the old trick to get your data back just do not work, wiggling the drive as it does a drive seek or giving at whack while powering up just to enable you access to your data so that you can back it up. SO sorry to say this if it will not power up nor do a drive seek and you do not have it backed up on other mediums or HDD's you are basically screwed.

There is an age old lesson on here save your important data in two or even three, if you have gmail you can store a heck-a-va lot of data online only limited by your internet connection speed.

Have a regular backup schedule and remember even with the new solid state memory based high speed HDD's (so far they have them up to 84GB) that are coming through - a secure backup policy is the only protection against any threat.
 
webslave said:
Have a regular backup schedule and remember even with the new solid state memory based high speed HDD's (so far they have them up to 84GB) that are coming through - a secure backup policy is the only protection against any threat.
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But these do cost an arm and leg at present... :eek:

But nice to have tho :)
 
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