HDD FAILURE

[sp0rky]

Hi,

My office have one of the computer displaying

Reboot and Select proper boot device.

I think HDD kaput. Not sure if its logical or mechanical failure.

How ah? Am i able to retrive data? If so how? Go SLS settle?

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

is your hdd the only OS and data?

if this is so I still think u shouldn't usee the drive now. but do u have any other system? maybe can try to move to another pc to try to load and see if can be detect or not.

 

[voltech]

Hi,

My office have one of the computer displaying

Reboot and Select proper boot device.

I think HDD kaput. Not sure if its logical or mechanical failure.

How ah? Am i able to retrive data? If so how? Go SLS settle?

Hi there,

Are you able to see this drive in the BIOS or able to plug this drive to another system and see if it can be seen in Windows. If you cant see it in the BIOS nor Windows, it is probably mechanical failure. You could try this too, just plug the power cable to the drive and try powering it on. Feel for the vibration from the motor. If you do not feel, that is confirmed hardware failure.

 

[sp0rky]

Hi there,

Are you able to see this drive in the BIOS or able to plug this drive to another system and see if it can be seen in Windows. If you cant see it in the BIOS nor Windows, it is probably mechanical failure. You could try this too, just plug the power cable to the drive and try powering it on. Feel for the vibration from the motor. If you do not feel, that is confirmed hardware failure.

If it's plugged out 1st boot device is hard disk.
If it's plugged in its windows boot manager

 

[sp0rky]

Ok it's not hardware failure. Detected in another computer. How do I fix it?

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Ok it's not hardware failure. Detected in another computer. How do I fix it?

try changing ports and cable and test and see.

 

[sp0rky]

Still the same. My colleague told me this happened because windows was doing an update after shutdown. Then I got stuck for 2 hours. So he power down. After that power on already become cant find boot device

 

[jtjt00]

TS, all you can do now is to copy out your data from the problem HDD. Once done, get a SSD and fresh install OS. You may want to connect back the old HDD and reformat after OS setup.

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Still the same. My colleague told me this happened because windows was doing an update after shutdown. Then I got stuck for 2 hours. So he power down. After that power on already become cant find boot device

Dunno if the MBR is DMG or the os is corrupted.

But u try the above method and see if can work or not.

 

[sp0rky]

TS, all you can do now is to copy out your data from the problem HDD. Once done, get a SSD and fresh install OS. You may want to connect back the old HDD and reformat after OS setup.

Ya that's what I intend to do. A bit troublesome though. Hahaha. Because i don't know what are the stuff I need to back up

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Ya that's what I intend to do. A bit troublesome though. Hahaha. Because i don't know what are the stuff I need to back up

buy the same size drive and just copy folder by folder (just dun copy OS and program files.)

 

[jtjt00]

Ya that's what I intend to do. A bit troublesome though. Hahaha. Because i don't know what are the stuff I need to back up

In your starting thread, you are concerned about retrieving data. Now can access and troublesome to retrieve the data?

 

[sp0rky]

Ya now I know it's not big problem ma.. haha. Humans.