unplugged sata hard drive without doing safely remove hardware!!

salami1212 · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:04

Well, I noticed when i got my sata drive, it has safely remove hardware icon at the bottom. If i dont safely remove it before unplugging it, will it damage it. As i unplugged it without safety removing it and now it doesnt work

it wont read it in the bios!

ste_bla · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:12

did you unplug it while your pc was off?

fini · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:12

EDIT: yeh, what he said /\

fini

salami1212 · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:20

yep. course i did
lol

ste_bla · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:45

Well you might be a bit buggered

Have you tried another Sata port or pref. another PC?

If they cant see it then you've fubard it, maybe try a RMA but who knows if they would accept it

salami1212 · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:59

i mean, are you supposed to do safely remove hardware?

tom_e · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:01

if your computer was turned off then safely remove hardware has nothing to do with it

ste_bla · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:02

No, that only matters if the PC is on

Jokester · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:03

It might seem obvious, but have you plugged it back in?

Unplugging it with the power off won't harm it at all, Safely Remove Hardware just lets you unplug it with the power on.

Jokester

ste_bla · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:05

Jokester said:
It might seem obvious, but have you plugged it back in?

Unplugging it with the power off won't harm it at all, Safely Remove Hardware just lets you unplug it with the power on.

Jokester

You say that but I did the remove hardware thing and it might have messed up the Hdd some how it always made a "clunk" afterwards and in end i had to RMA it

coincidence maybe?? who knows