MagicMike613 Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 My Segate 1tb hard disk suddenly stopped working.While the disk inside is spinning but is not accessible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfaxt Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 (edited) ok few fast tips keep the disc out of power till you re ready to try to access your data and move them to another disk. try with a different OS eg liive cd https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu. you can run this from cd without installing it if its external remove the enclosure and try it as internal disk. then if nothing works i guess you can try recovery software ( i dont really know anything about them) and if you can see the disk in bios but you cant get your data after all, keep disk in drawer and try again in ~3 months Edited October 19, 2017 by sfaxt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeutralHatred Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 9 hours ago, MagicMike613 said: My Segate 1tb hard disk suddenly stopped working.While the disk inside is spinning but is not accessible. Locate Disk Management within your OS. If 10, right click the Windows logo and open Disk Management. If any other OS, search for Disk Management or locate it in the Control panel. If you see the HDD in Disk Management but are unable to access it, you have a logical failure, meaning the drive itself is functioning but the board attached to it which allows access to the information has failed. If this is the case, data recovery is your only option. Unless you can replace the board. Which is unlikely. If the drive is not seen in Disk Management, yet the drive spins up, it is still considered logical failure, however, more severe as the drive has failed so badly that the OS cannot even see a drive plugged in; it is only powering and spinning up. As sfaxt said, if the drive is an external, you may be in luck. In cases where the drive is plugged in and spinning but inaccessible, the enclosure itself may have failed instead of the drive itself. You will need to extract the drive from the enclosure and connect it to your PC via a SATA to USB cable or a Docking Station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMike613 Posted October 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2017 It's probably a logical failure. So, should i change my board or should i give it for data recovery ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeutralHatred Posted October 20, 2017 Report Share Posted October 20, 2017 3 hours ago, MagicMike613 said: It's probably a logical failure. So, should i change my board or should i give it for data recovery ? By board, I meant the motherboard on the hard drive itself. There isn't exactly spare parts laying around for it. Data recovery would be your only option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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