Faulty Drive Issues

[Off-The-Chart]

Ok, so brother had some issues with PC and so far we have diagnosed a drive causing endless kak

scenario was: he had Win 7 and like a lazy bastard I didn't opt to fresh install, but instead just 'upgrade' to a Win 10 installation

formatting his PC this weekend got me realizing that since I thought I was just doing the upgrade, never occurred that that whole thing Win 10 loves to do when you have multiple drives installed, may happen

so what happened was his PC would randomly crash and then upon a reboot, it would sometimes load but then most times it would hang on the Windows loading screen

then when he would shut down or reset, when it tries to do an Automatic Repair, the PC gets stuck on a black screen with only being able to see a mouse cursor as you move mouse

so, taking the 1 storage drive out of the equation, his PC started up as usual and so we thought happy days

I went and formatted the SSD and all happy, until we tried connecting that other storage drive

PC would hang again on Windows loading screen on first try with it connected

before the formatting I also tried to just check if that drive alone gets seen by the PC and the BIOS did see it, but it would give that BOOTMNGR missing error

so, I cleaned his PC and yesterday I tried connecting that drive to my own PC and again, it did same thing... hang on Windows loading and upon Auto Repair, sits on black screen

so, did the hassle of buying a USB dock and today I connected that up, with no luck

not seeing in Disk Management


SOOOOOO.....

is this his 2nd drive he is losing with all of his photos on?

I put ad in the Storage section for a motherboard for the drive, as I do get vibration from it and no weird sounds

also, if someone can recommend a Data Recovery place that can actually tell before hand how much it could cost, please do

 

[aiccc]

a board will not help, you have to transfer the bios eeprom info, else the drive will not work.

If you have a vibration, it is most likely toast.

There are ways around this issue. I will post later

 

[Off-The-Chart]

a board will not help, you have to transfer the bios eeprom info, else the drive will not work.

If you have a vibration, it is most likely toast.

There are ways around this issue. I will post later

well I checked a vid earlier this week of a guy fixing 2 broken drives and the first thing he tried was just swapping boards, but yes, ultimately had to do the BIOS swap

by vibration I just mean like a working drive, there is just no spinning or weird noises

like when I plug a working drive in, it feels the same but without the spinning from the working drive