Dead HDD?

The VCR King

The VCR King

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My computer crashed/lost power a few days ago and one of the HDDs in my hot-swap bay is not working now. It's a laptop-sized Seagate Momentus 250GB drive, and after rebooting it is not showing up in Windows Explorer. I tried looking at my components in Speccy but it wasn't there either. I tried a hardware scan but it wasn't found. The little light on the hot swap bay is lit saying there is a drive there but my computer says otherwise. If I take the disk out of the computer and plug it back in, the HDD Activity light on my case lights up like the computer recognizes the HDD, but nothing else happens. Is it trashed?
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Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
 
johnb35 said:
Look in disk management. Also, does the bios recognize the drive?
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It is not showing in Disk Management. I also do not know how to get into my bios because the screen that first shows at startup doesn't say "press [whatever]" on it. I also don't remember where I placed my motherboard manual. I think it is F11 because I went into BIOS a LONG while back, I will try later. I tried SeaTools, but it isn't recognizing the drive either. I think my laptop's hard drive is the same size. Could I try putting the HDD into the laptop and see if it works?
 
It could be that it simply lost the partition and needs to be formatted. When the computer turns on, try pressing DEL, F1, F2, F8, F10, etc. Those are the common buttons to enter the BIOS, and see if it's listed there.
 
Anyone know how I can recover the data off the disc? It's nothing much, just a few text files and SWF videos, but I want it back if possible.
 
The VCR King said:
Anyone know how I can recover the data off the disc? It's nothing much, just a few text files and SWF videos, but I want it back if possible.
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That's why you need to have a backup. If it fails to mount and even appear in the BIOS, the chances are very slim. I'd say connect it to an external drive dock or put it in another computer, but if that doesn't work you'd have to either use disaster recovery software or pay a company to recover it.
 
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