Is my hard drive dead?

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DerekMecca

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I have an 80g SATA that I have been using as my OS drive for a long time now. I got it when SATA drives were first becoming popular.

I had XP on it, but last night I partitioned it in half with partition magic and put Windows 7 32bit Pro on the other half. I left my computer on all night. I got up this morning to no image on my screen. Eventually I manually rebooted and now my computer won't boot up. No image or anything, and I can't hear the hard drive making noise.

Did my hard drive die on me? Is there any way I can test it without having a secondary computer to test it in? All I have other than my desktop is my wife's laptop.
 
Were you able to access the BIOS to see if the Drive is showing there?

If you are unable to access the BIOS, then either the drive is really toast or you have some other issue.

I know some early SATA drives had connector issues. This was due to HD manufacturers replacing IDE connectors with SATA without redesigning the card itself.

Hard Drives are not super expensive these days, If your drive does not show in BIOS, you could always pick up a 250 or 320 drive and install windows to that, then use your computer to try to recover data off of your old drive.
 
No, the computer isn't posting period. Can't even see the bios because I'm getting no image on my screen. I called a friend and he said he thinks it's my power supply.
 
So I took the computer upstairs and turned it on again, and it posted... but then I heard what sounded like something stuck in the power supply fan. I looked at the screen and I didn't see anything. I turned the computer off then sat it upright and turned it back on. No sound... and now the computer is booting fine.

Strange. I'm going to open it up here in a bit and reconnect everything and blast some air in it.
 
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