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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: NaturalBornCamper on September 29, 2010, 03:06:32 PM

Title: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: NaturalBornCamper on September 29, 2010, 03:06:32 PM

Hay!

My friend's laptop had a windows file corrupt (Error message before Windows starts about HAL.DLL) so I booted up with Ubuntu to correct that but I could not see the hard drive and could not mount it. I tried booting normally again.. no drive detected, not even the error message!

So I tried to plug the hard drive on my desktop computer but it could not be detected in the BIOS and in Windows. However, during the BIOS post message, when the BIOS is trying to detect SATA hard drives, it freezes for 30 seconds on SATA3 (where it's plugged) and then it says: "Not detected", as it says with SATA2 where there is nothing plugged.

Is it dead?

Thanks all

Marco

Title: Re: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: Computer_Commando on September 29, 2010, 04:02:43 PM

It's dead.

Title: Re: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: Allan on September 29, 2010, 04:08:25 PM

Jim

Title: Re: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: Computer_Commando on September 29, 2010, 04:30:18 PM

Quote from: Allan on September 29, 2010, 04:08:25 PM

Jim

???

Title: Re: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: Allan on September 29, 2010, 04:35:16 PM

Guess you're not a Star Trek fan

Title: Re: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: NaturalBornCamper on September 29, 2010, 06:12:17 PM

So there is no way to gat the data back by any mean?

Title: Re: SATA drive neither detected in Windows or BIOS or startup
Post by: quaxo on September 30, 2010, 01:21:07 AM

*censored* it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a computer technician.


Since you've already tried it in another system and it still can't be seen, chances are the drive is dead. If the data is important enough, there are companies out there that specialize in recovering data from dead or dying drives. It's cheaper than it used to be, but still not that cheap.