Hardware Broken HDD?

[czeru]

You should download HIRENDS BOOT CD and check your HDD for bad sectors.

 

[Noctosphere]

You should download HIRENDS BOOT CD and check your HDD for bad sectors.

As I said, that hard drive is just not recognized at all
If I can't find it in Disc Manager or BIOS
I doubt I'll find it there

 

[Originality]

Rather than not being detected at all, I suspect that Disk 1 (the 3GB drive) is actually your HDD, with a corrupted controller on the logic board. If I remember correctly, this can be fixed by flashing new firmware by someone who knows their stuff.

Then again, as there’s no valuable data on that drive, I would say you might as well get a new drive anyway. When a drive fails once, even if you manage to get it working again, I wouldn’t trust it.

 

[Noctosphere]

Jus received my new HDD
installed it and all, seems like my old one is broken
The new one works

My old one was a 3TB, but I had a big deal on it
Sadly, I could only afford a 2TB this time, but it still is a lot

 

[DinohScene]

When a drive fails once, even if you manage to get it working again, I wouldn’t trust it.

I side with you on that, data loss is incredibly frustrating and can be expensive to impossible to get back.

Best is to just get a new drive, even if you're only going to store things on it you can redownload.