Gents

Can anyone advise me with this please

I had a 1tb SATA hd in my pc set as e drive to store all my music, all of a sudden

Lastnight it disappeared? It's not even in the BIOS, and nope nobody has stolen it LOL,

 

I can hear it spin up ok but I can't access it at all, am I able to get my music back or is it screwed so to speak

Any help greatly appreceated

Thanks

Sounds like the controller may have failed or the sata lead is not connecting properly. You could try plugging the drive into another SATA port on your pc to see if you can get the pc to recognise it again. Also try a plugging it into another power lead.

 

If the drive still isn't seen then the chances are that the HD controller board has a problem.

I did try a diffrent lead also diffrent sata port in the pc also diffrent power plug, hd spins up ok but still not recognised

Hmmm

Do you have another PC to test it in? that would confirm if the HD is screwed, there are company's that will recover your data but its not cheap and not advised if you have 400gig of porn lol

Probably the drives board that's failed then :( All I can think of to do is buy a new identical drive and swap the boards over. Or you could send the drive off to a data recovery company and get them to transfer the data. Don't know how much this would cost as I haven't had to do it for years.

Probably the drives board that's failed then :( All I can think of to do is buy a new identical drive and swap the boards over. Or you could send the drive off to a data recovery company and get them to transfer the data. Don't know how much this would cost as I haven't had to do it for years.

 

The only way you will recover the data if you swap the boards, is if you get one with the same version number and same firmware version as well, not as straight forward as you may believe, im still waiting to get a HDD board to recover a fecked hard drive to get my data off.