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my wd hard drive dead? not even 2 years old?

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Skrewologist

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did a search but can't really tell if my hard drive is truly dead or not. I have a 40gig primary maxtor hd, and the wd120gig hd is the salve drive for data. I leave my pc on 24/7; well one day i came home and my WD120gig hd was not seen in "My Computer" so I reboot and it's still not being recognized. On top of that, my PC was very sluggish, not as in slow loading, but many times it will pause for several seconds before doing anything if u know what i mean. I've tried everything to get this drive recognized because i have a lot of data i need on it. I went to control panel --> device manager, clicked on refresh IDE drives and some how windows recognizes it then but it wont read the drive at all. Now I notice sometimes when I reboot I get this message after detecting IDE drives, "primary ide channel no 80 conductor cable installed". I've never had this message before. Is this hd dead or what. The sad part is, this drive isn't even 2 years old. And the Maxtor drive is several more years older. I disconnected the WD drive for now because it was lagging my PC.

Thanks.
 
I had my WD Raptor start developing bad sectors in less than a year. WD RMA was perfect though so I got my replacement drive in 2 days and sent my old one back using advanced RMA. Stuff liek this happens all the time. HDD's are one of the few things in a PC with moving parts and evetually they are going to break down.
 
Originally posted by: Skrewologist
As a matter of fact, that link says it's still under warranty. Thanks a lot.
But can they recover my data?
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No they do not recover data, making sure you have backups is your job.
 
No I was being serious about the 1K I haven't seen anything below that but you say WD recommends places starting at $175? Well then you might want to check them out I personally have never heard of any that cheap before.
 
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