Yesterday while watching movie on my PC it appeared as black on the screen and stopped working. After restarting the PC it was not responding as the BIOS was unable to recognize the hard disk. It creates an unusual sound while BIOS searches drives. 1. I tried by bootting the PC using another hard disk but this HD does not appear in the windows. 2. I also tried to boot using Ubuntu live CD but failed to find my HD on it. As it is not recognized by BIOS, I cann't use data recovery software to recover the data. I'm badly in need of all data in it. Please someone help me in this regard to recover the data. Brand: SAMSUNG Model: HD252HJ Capacity : 250 GB Interface : Serial ATA 3.0 Gbps Buffer memory : 16MB
Welcome to HWF If you have a spare hard disk, then replace your current disk with the spare disk. Is that disk recognized in the BIOS?
I connected an IDE hard disk and it was ok. This IDE HD was recognized in the BIOS and can boot OS as well. There is 2 SATA port and I checked the both but no +ve result. Please be noted that DVD ROM Drive works in both SATA ports. I've no spare SATA hard disk. Another important thing is it creates an unusual sound and took more time than usual while BIOS searches drives but no sound when it is disconnected from the system.
If the sound is clack-clack-clack AND BIOS doesn't see the drive then the data is probably GONE. There is a way. Get the electronic part (working one) from exactly the same Samsung model and replace it. Could be able to salvage some data with GetDataBack or similar utility. Also I heard about a little more serious machines for recovery, but I also heard it costs way over couple of thousands. Where is your backup?
