Hard drive just died overnight

Mrobbo · 23 Mar 2009 at 19:49

Hi all, I have two Seagate 500G hard drives (bought from OcUK incidently) and switching on my PC this morning and the boot drive wasn't detected. So I tried using a SATA to USB adapter to access the drive on my other computer. Again nothing, the drive couldn't be found.

So I'm thinking this must be a complete and catastrophic failure then. The drive isn't detected, I can't open it via another computer.

There's not much else I can do with it is there? Do I have to bite the bullet and simply get a replacement or can I recover some of the data on it. I'm running VIsta 64 if that's any help.

This is all part of a Titan Accelerator system I bought from OcUK last November, although the problem hard drive is a second one I purchased separately.

Any help would be appreciated.

CaseyChaos · 23 Mar 2009 at 20:20

If you do get another hard drive then try plug in the dead one as a 2nd drive and see if it can be found, the problem may be that it can't be booted but if you're lucky you may get long enough to get some stuff off

Mrobbo · 23 Mar 2009 at 20:39

Thanks, I have a second drive which I'm now clearing some space on to form a boot partition so I'll give your suggestion a go when I get that sorted.

I don't hold out much hope but you never know.

JC · 23 Mar 2009 at 20:44

Boot off a linux live CD and see if you can access any of the drive data?

Admiral Huddy · 23 Mar 2009 at 20:45

Check the manufacturers website for disk diagnostic tools. If it's found to be faulty and it's within their warrantee period, you'll get a new one.

Mrobbo · 23 Mar 2009 at 21:05

I'll do that thanks.

As an aside, is it usual for the overclocking to fail when the boot drive goes?

I bought my PC pre-overclocked by OcUK.

mattfinch · 23 Mar 2009 at 22:17

It's not a 7200.11 is it?

Didn't seagate offer free data recovery if you had a 7200.11 die within the warranty?

EsaT · 24 Mar 2009 at 10:21

mattfinch said:
It's not a 7200.11 is it?

Didn't seagate offer free data recovery if you had a 7200.11 die within the warranty?

They don't exactly die... just brick themselves to condition where they're not recognized.

bledd · 24 Mar 2009 at 10:32

just restore the data from your backup to the new drive

nightmare99 · 24 Mar 2009 at 11:22

just restore the data from your backup to the new drive

lol

Mrobbo · 24 Mar 2009 at 11:32

mattfinch said:
It's not a 7200.11 is it?

Didn't seagate offer free data recovery if you had a 7200.11 die within the warranty?

Yeah it is a 7200.11, they both are. Clearly I should look elsewhere for a replacement.

bledd. said:
just restore the data from your backup to the new drive

Actually, I do have some of the data backed up, just not the most recent stuff.

Vegetarian · 24 Mar 2009 at 11:38

I went thru a few 7200.11's dieing like this. Bad drives

Mrobbo · 24 Mar 2009 at 15:27

I bought a Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) to replace the two Seagates. (I'm not taking a risk with the other one).

So I'm just going to partition it to death and stick everything on it.

Thanks for your help guys.

bledd · 24 Mar 2009 at 15:36

you should buy 2x 1tb drives

use one as a daily backup of the other one.