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'frozen' hard drive

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I have a 6TB HDWIN!160 Toshiba hard drive that is 6 months old. It's 10% filled and I'm using it in my main machine as a data drive with a primary Samsung 960 EVO m2 SSD as the boot drive. It's given me no trouble until the other day when I turned on the machine and it wouldn't show up. I ran the Toshiba drive utility which showed it as 'frozen'. I've done my research on Google and haven't gotten anything really useful. The computer and hard drive have never had any form of password. I've had this drive in my primary machine except for a brief stint in my new Z370 machine. I had just put it back in my main machine, where it seemed to work OK, and the next day was when it became 'frozen'. I know I can wipe the drive and get it back but before I resort to that I want to try and recover the data I lost. Any ideas on how to fix this drive?
 
I have no specific suggestions for this issue and haven't ever owned Toshiba drives.

However, I'll offer up my general tips and tricks for dead mechanical drives:
- Run speedfan or some other utility that lets you read SMART codes
- Check the Windows "Disk Management" utility and see if it offers any clues
- Try it in a different system with a different cable. Unlikely, but always good to rule out other component failure
- Try a linux live image with some disk utilities.
- Finally, stick er in the freezer for a few hours and try with a cold drive. Be careful of condensation and this won't work 90% of the time, but I have brought 2 drives back to life just long enough to grab some files using this method.

Good luck to you sir!
 
If the Toshiba is showing Frozen as the status, then whatever password it is expecting has not been presented. Try it with another SATA cable on another SATA port and see if it can be mounted. Unfortunately, if it doesn't come up then it is either a flipped bit which set a PW and wiping it and setting it up again would fix it, or the drive has failed.
 
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