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i believe the harddrive is broken.

bleucharm28

bleucharm28

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I have a Toshiba laptop, I can boot into bios, but the bios no longer detects the hard drive. Is really easy for me to simply replace it with a new hard. But is there a way to retrieve files\data from the broken drive? When I turn on the laptop, the hard drive no longer spins.


Any help would be great.🙂
 
Replacing the hd is easy once you open the laptop up. As for restarting or retrieving files it depends on what part of the hd has gone bad. A sharp rap to the drive housing will usually free it up but you risk further damage if you hit it too hard. Just do a google search for reviving a stuck hd.
 
Is it completely gone, or just intermittent? The HD in my wife's Toshiba acts up intermittently like that, where the drive just disappears (black screen, no Windows boot)... but cycling power to the laptop always brings it back.

At first we thought it was the HD, so we put in a new one (7200RPM 500Gb), but it's still having the same issue.
 
stahlhart said:
Is it completely gone, or just intermittent? The HD in my wife's Toshiba acts up intermittently like that, where the drive just disappears (black screen, no Windows boot)... but cycling power to the laptop always brings it back.

At first we thought it was the HD, so we put in a new one (7200RPM 500Gb), but it's still having the same issue.
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I tried reboot the laptop multiple times and still can't get to detect.
 
If you can get the drive to work in another system as a slave device (which would actually scare me more about the state of your laptop), you should be able to recover your own data. If it's dead no matter where you hook it up, you're looking at data recovery service, which won't be cheap.

Our laptop here is an S665-A5179, by the way.
 
There's also the freezer trick. You have to be very careful of condensation, but stick the drive in the freezer for a while and then take it out and plug it in and see if it will spin up. This is best done with an external dock to put it in because if you do get condensation you don't want it getting into the rest of the laptop. You could even go as far as to put the external dock in the freezer with the cables hanging out so you can power it on with it still in the freezer.
 
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