Permabanned
I had smart error warnings a while ago but i just ignored it because i thought it was just windows 7 giving false warnings because the drives appeared fine in other tests. The drive has vanished from my computer and when trying to open any application with smart it just hangs. The disk management just hangs, lavalys everest just hangs on smart scan and hd tune does not open when you run it. I am at work at the moment and can't restart the pc and do those tests till tonight. Do you think the drive is gone for good or might i get a second chance to backup data ?