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Snaxxor
Jan 18, 2005

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Problem description: My slave HDD has ate the poo poo. Does not show up in bios or windows device manager (obviously)

Attempted fixes: Reseated everything involved in the affected area. Replaced the sata cable and power cable. Used different slot for sata connection to motherboard

Recent changes: Have you made any changes to your system/configuration recently that might have caused the problem? None, although I can say after a recent steam update system was chugging when using resources located on said slave drive. Perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back?

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Operating system: Windas' Seven

System specs: i5-3570k, 16gb of crucial brand RAM, Radeon 7850, Samsung 256gb SSD, 1tb Seagate HDD (the subject of problem)

Location: Chicago

I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes

I really just want to know if there is any way to recover the HDD, I had backups of important stuff like my music and my anime videos, but who knows what else was randomly thrown on there that wasent backed up? I am willing to disassemble the disk if it means something will come of it.

The HDD in question was purchased in early 2012 so I guess I can't complain that it failed. Maybe this post is in vain but I am seeing what my options are.

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Snaxxor
Jan 18, 2005

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Negative on the clicking/scraping, it feels like it wants to do something when its plugged in a slight vibration is emitted. There is nothing major though.

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