SATA drive stopped working?

[SavageSig]

My 750GB Seagate drive died yesterday without any warning. It's my secondary drive, and I've had it installed for about two months now. I booted Windows and tried to start up StarCraft II, which is on this drive. It paused and locked up. I rebooted and now the drive isn't being detected in BIOS or in Windows. I tried all the SATA connectors on my PSU and 4 different SATA cables. I'm not even sure it's being powered, as I don't detect any hums or vibrations.

Anybody have any ideas?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Try changing the power and data cable before

you give up and maybe Seagate has some

software to analyze it on their site. If all fails,

you can take it out of the box and slam it on the

desk. You'd be surprised but that sometimes

works, but only as a last resort.

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[JeffL]

Software isn't going to work if the BIOS doesn't recognize it. If it doesn't spin up at all there's probably not a lot that can be done. This is the reason why my two 1TB drives are in a mirrored array, if I lose one I still have all of my data.

[enfield]

Call Seagate and get a new drive.

I had this problem with a Seagate drive several years ago and the third one I got was OK. All drives eventually fail, but 2 months is ridiculous.

[Guest HvyMtl]

Thoughts.

Moved the Computer recently? Bumped it? Check all wires (power and SATA cable.)

Swap the power connector from the power supply. Swap SATA cable.

Download hard drive diagnostic software from Seagate's website.

IF there is important information on the hard drive which you need to collect, take to a professional - ie. NOT Best Buy.

Return to either the place of purchase or Seagate and get a new drive.

[MacGyver]

If it seems to spin up okay, you're welcome to bring it to me. If you can wait a couple of days, we'll work it into the schedule and get it on one of our forensic workstations. If it's just dropped it's file allocation tables or partition information we should be able to recover the data. PM me if you want.

[SavageSig]

Well it doesn't spin up. I tried an external enclosure and power supply and no dice. Fortunately I've got 2/3 of it backed up. The other third is just media junk anyhow, though I appreciate the offer macgyver. I'm definitely going to get Seagate to replace it. I got a WD so I can install and run SC2 anyhow.

[MacGyver]

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like something on the contoller board cooked. We're noticing mean time between failure on hard drives - especially maxtors post seagate acquisition is way shorter than it used to be. I think their QC has gone through the floor.

[Guest friesepferd]

bah. sounds like its dead. it happens. seagates are usually pretty good. they should replace it since its fairly new.

and yea... mirror ftw