Probability that my HDD is fried?

DefiantAsh

DefiantAsh

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Ok, as of title, i am beginning to think that my old NONE Revision Sandybridge board has ultimately fried my hard drive, it doesnt pick it up in the BIOS in a B3 Revision board, only opened and fitted it today, and it will not install a fresh copy of Win7 onto it, hence it not being found at all within the BIOS.

On first boot to test, everything powered up, fans work on cpu/gpu and psu and the front of the case, everything was fine, i could boot from disc and i had access and power to the Optical drive, however when it came to checking settings, i noticed only one SATA drive was being found - the DVD/optical drive, so i restarted and the HDD popped up, so i tried booting from that - as previously i had a Win7 install on that with files and games etc, however after a few more tries it never connects, nor show up within the BIOS.

I've swapped the SATA Cables about with the DVD and HDD but still no luck, switch them on the board too, no luck.

Anyone had this issue?

And should i just buy a new HDD and see if that works?

Im not sure if i'd be able to claim an RMA for the HDD as its over a month old, but if it has fried, it was most certainly the motherboard which did it, which was RMA'd about 2 weeks ago now.

Any replies will be much appreciated, Thanks :)
 
Even if the fault has developed in your Sandybridge board it affects the working of the SATA 2 ports but should not damage any drives connected to them

Try with the HDD connected to an Intel SATA 3 port as they're not affected by the problem.

You can connect your DVD drive to a SATA 3 port as well if you want to try installing Windows.
 
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Surveyor said:
Even if the fault has developed in your Sandybridge board it affects the working of the SATA 2 ports but should not damage any drives connected to them

Try with the HDD connected to an Intel SATA 3 port as they're not affected by the problem.

You can connect your DVD drive to a SATA 3 port as well if you want to try installing Windows.
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Tried everything, moved to different ports and no luck, but the DVD drive will work without fault, i should be able to RMA it if the Board was to blame? thats already been RMA'd as it was a None revision board.
 
The motherboard won't have damaged the drive it just sounds like it's failed.

Just RMA the drive.

If it's only just over a month old there's no problem as most drives have a 3 year warranty.
 
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