Hi guys,
I'm really in desperate need of help right now. My harddrive just died and all my essays and school stuff are in it and the due dates are within days.
So I turned on my pc this afternoon,did some stuff and turned it off,then i wanted to turn it on again but the harddrive is no longer detected by BIOS.The bios gives the typical message of no harddrive detected,plz insert boot media and press a key blah blah blah.i also noticed that the whole start up becomes incredibly slow,even for loading the bios setup. I bought this new pc during xmas and its just been a lil bit over 3 months.
seagate barracuda 7200.11 500Gbytes
motherboard is Asus P5QL Pro
4gig mem.
geforce 9800gt
intel 2.5Ghz
the machine's been perfectly normal for 3 months except very occassional blue screens,and now the hd is not dectected all of a sudden.
i did not install anything or remove anything in hardware/software,i tried a different sata cable for dvd-rw which is recognized by bios,plugging into a different sata plug on the motherboard,and nothing happens.
when i start the machine i can hear that there's a couple clicks in the harddrive,so obviously its still running,but after that its all silence and there's no activity at all thereafter.
does this indicate a dead harddrive that can only be replaced?is there any chance i can recover the data on the harddrive?
thx tons for any reply!!!
I'm really in desperate need of help right now. My harddrive just died and all my essays and school stuff are in it and the due dates are within days.
So I turned on my pc this afternoon,did some stuff and turned it off,then i wanted to turn it on again but the harddrive is no longer detected by BIOS.The bios gives the typical message of no harddrive detected,plz insert boot media and press a key blah blah blah.i also noticed that the whole start up becomes incredibly slow,even for loading the bios setup. I bought this new pc during xmas and its just been a lil bit over 3 months.
seagate barracuda 7200.11 500Gbytes
motherboard is Asus P5QL Pro
4gig mem.
geforce 9800gt
intel 2.5Ghz
the machine's been perfectly normal for 3 months except very occassional blue screens,and now the hd is not dectected all of a sudden.
i did not install anything or remove anything in hardware/software,i tried a different sata cable for dvd-rw which is recognized by bios,plugging into a different sata plug on the motherboard,and nothing happens.
when i start the machine i can hear that there's a couple clicks in the harddrive,so obviously its still running,but after that its all silence and there's no activity at all thereafter.
does this indicate a dead harddrive that can only be replaced?is there any chance i can recover the data on the harddrive?
thx tons for any reply!!!