Need help. HDD Failed
- by jiewmeng
i have a seagate 3.5" 500GB SATA2 HDD that i put in a USB case (vantec) that failed recently.
symptoms:
at first, it started except that attempts made to browse certain folders resulted in "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)".
then when i tried restarting the hdd, then i got a RAW partition, and windows 7 said i need to format it.
i also tried using a desktop to connect to the HDD directly using SATA, windows 7 stuck at "starting windows" for abt half hour b4 i gave up on it. in the BIOS, it seems to detect the HDD model correctly, something like STA3500xxx something like that
i also tried using TestDisk as suggested by jaclaz on MSFN and it did not find any partitions
what could i do now?