Is my HDD dead?

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Ok, a few days ago I upgraded my system with new mobo, CPU, RAM etc and had planned to use my old Samsung Spinpoint F3 with it. When I finished the setup and turned it on the mobo doesn't recognise that there is an HDD attached at all.

I double checked the cables were seated correctly, used different cables, tried different SATA ports but it just won't show up. It had seemed to be working fine in my old build and there weren't any noticeable slowdowns, no abnormal noises from it, no corrupted data, so could this be an issue between the drive and the new mobo or has it simply died?

The mobo is an Asus Z170 Pro Gaming with the default BIOS settings and I can't seem to find anything on the internet that'd suggest there are common problems on this front. Currently using an SSD with the same mobo in the same SATA port so I know the board works.

Any insight would be good. Cheers.
 
Might be worth looking under disk management and see if it is picked up there. Also if you had W10 on your old machine it could be down to hybrid shutdown. You could also try and boot with USB stick running Linux and again see if it pops up in disk or Gpart.
 
Also. when the samsung drive is connected and the PC powered on can you hear it spinning up? Does anything show up in the BIOS?
 
Bantu said:
Also. when the samsung drive is connected and the PC powered on can you hear it spinning up? Does anything show up in the BIOS?
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Nothing shows up in the BIOS for that port. As for spinning up I don't think so, but to be fair it was always very quiet by HDD standards. There were a few flickers of the HDD LED when it was turned on but after that I'd get dropped into the BIOS and then nothing.

I'll connect it up and see if it appears in disk management just to check if it's a BIOS issue.
 
Ok, I got it plugged in again and it made the system hang quite a while when I turned it on but Windows 10 eventually started up. I opened disk management and I'm seeing a "disk 1" listed as unknown and uninitialized with no info on the size of the volume or partitions. I've looked at a few articles about fixing this problem but they all seem to be able to see at least some details about the drive.

Any tips?
 
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