So yeah, today when I booted my PC it took way longer than usual to reach Windows. This has happened before so I immediately assumed it was my 1TB Seagate drive that was acting up again. A couple of weeks ago the same thing happened, only that time the drive booted normally after a reboot, this time it ain't sadly.
BIOS reports that there's no SATA cable connected to the Seagate drive, I've tried replacing SATA cable, and switched between power cables from my second SSD to said Seagate drive. Zero activity/noise from the drive itself.
CrystalDiskInfo last time I checked, reported no faults on the drive as far as I could tell (I just checked the big "health" status occasionally, which maintained 100%).
I'm out of ideas for now unfortunately. Extremely bummed out because that drive held a ton of important art/literature projects of mine. If anyone could give me some advice I'd be extremely grateful.
If it remains dead my last option would be to take it to some PC service store in town and try to recover some of my stuff, if possible.
Take it to a local place. It's not powering up at all which indicates there is a circuit failure on the board attached to the drive. There's probably not much a local place can do unless they are up to the task of trying a new PCB, which is simple enough if they can find the exact same one. The problem is on a lot of drives a chip or two have to be transferred over to the donor board. In my own experience most local places are not equipped to perform any kind of precision board-level soldering but they should be able to perform some very limited troubleshooting to determine if it really is the board.
If they can't help you then you'd want to take it to an actual data recovery specialist capable of transferring board components to a new PCB. I am not sure how much a service like that would cost.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;52693516]Take it to a local place. It's not powering up at all which indicates there is a circuit failure on the board attached to the drive. There's probably not much a local place can do unless they are up to the task of trying a new PCB, which is simple enough if they can find the exact same one. The problem is on a lot of drives a chip or two have to be transferred over to the donor board. In my own experience most local places are not equipped to perform any kind of precision board-level soldering but they should be able to perform some very limited troubleshooting to determine if it really is the board.
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I've ordered a new drive, its another Seagate but I'll start making backups from now on. I also looked up some HDD backup services online. For now I'm leaving the dead drive connected, just in case it boots at some point.
the last local PC store over here closed down a couple of months ago, so I'll have to send the drive to another city.
[QUOTE]If they can't help you then you'd want to take it to an actual data recovery specialist capable of transferring board components to a new PCB. I am not sure how much a service like that would cost.[/QUOTE]
an online store I usually order hardware from provides such services you mentioned, it might be real damn expensive though, since they charge by the hour for data retrieval/backup services.
update: I mailed the customer support of the online store and they basically told me that if the drive is completely dead there's not much they can do. They redirected me to another company that specializes in data recovery, however their services costs hundreds of euros. Seems I'm out of luck.
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