Hard Disk Crash

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taylort232

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Having trouble with my WD Caviar Green 1TB drive

BIOS recognizes that it's there, but doesn't show capacity. Windows doesn't assign a drive letter. I can feel it spinning.

Any thoughts? I have a ton of information on it that I'd like to recover.

Help!
 
It shows up at post maybe 15% of the time

When it doesn't show at post, it doesn't show in disk management

I havent caught it yet and looked on a boot where it showed at post
 
Double check your cabling, it could possibly be a bad SATA cable or port. Have you switched ports with it or tested it in another system?
 
I've tried new SATA cables, different PSU rail, different SATA ports, using it as the only SATA peripheral, repairing with win7 and win xp boot disks
 
Try on a different Mobo and see if it shows up on post. If it shows, it could be a bad ports. If it doesn't show, probably the HDD is dying. Can you run any SMART tests in BIOS?
 
It sounds like a board failure to me. I have 4 of those drives and two have failed on me. They began to have sector failures but never were not detected by the bios.
 
just have a try to fix your partition
the disk management utility may help you, check the drive letter and assign it.
if your partitions cannot be shown in the disk management utility, maybe the data in the partitions have lost
for sure, backup work can guarantee total security
 
sounds like it might be a headpark issue. i had this happen on one of my WD EARS drives. it would drop out once or twice a month. there is a fix from ms that fixes that issue. its supposed to be in the windows update list, but for me i had to install it manually as the one from the update site didnt fix it for me.
 
sounds like its on its way out. RMA it. was there anything important on it? You could always try the freezer trick, not sure if they breaks your warranty or not tho.
 
Better don't use WD Green Caviar 1TB because It always bring problem and have high rate of RMA . Better go for Samsung F3 1TB or WD Black Caviar 1TB .
 
koolaidkitten said:
sounds like its on its way out. RMA it. was there anything important on it? You could always try the freezer trick, not sure if they breaks your warranty or not tho.
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If there was anything important on it I would suggest against the freezer trick. The freezer trick will create condensation on the platters, regardless of how well sealed it is when it's put into the freezer.

If there's any important data on it that you need I suggest an affordable data recovery service. Any reputable data recovery lab will have a relationship with Western Digital so that it can still be RMA'd even if they have to crack the case.
 
HDD Regenerator is useful, but only as a last resort as it will clean up the harddrive very well and sometimes requires a format after. Use partition magic or something like that to format it, as it will recognize your harddrive and will assign it a letter.

If that doesn't work, RMA it and replace it will a WD Caviar Black. I just bought one and I love it so much. No problems and wicked fast.
 
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