Dead Hard Drive?

[taisingera]

I sold off my old system ,e6750&g33, but kept my hard drive and had it stored for a few days. Yesterday I built a new, i3&h55, system and put the drive into the new case, In-Win BK623. I cleared the hard drive and installed Win7x64, but didn't install it correctly as I needed to do a clean install with upgrade media (whole other story, finally got it sorted out). So I was trying all the methods in order to activate, and tried the double install. Soon after that, when the AHCI screen comes up, and no matter which port the drive was connected, it would just hang. So I tried another hard drive I had and that is getting past the AHCI screen without problem. I also tried this hard drive under IDE mode in BIOS, it was listed but I didn't hear it spin up, maybe just some low vibrations coming from it.

Then I put this drive into an enclosure and hooked it up with eSATA and it did the same thing. Although on one bootup, it stood there and eventually said "SMART failure". I then hooked it up through USB in the enclosure and it was not detected when I booted into Acronis. Fortunately I was able to get some Acronis backups off the drive in Windows before this started.

Is this drive toast?

 

[tweakboy]

When you turn on the comp, do you hear crackles noise or a tick tick sound.

Means your hd is dead. God bless it.

 

[taisingera]

Must have been a miracle, I put the drive back into the enclosure, this time screwing it in and closing the cover. Turned it on and I heard it spin up. It is now getting through the AHCI detection and I have imaged Win7 onto it. Strange indeed.