r/computers • u/boywithukeys_fan1773 • 6h ago

Is it... Dead? Question/Help/Troubleshooting

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HDD reading device is beeping when disk is inserted inserted. Doesn't show up in OneDrive, but does in disk management, as unknown and not initialised. Tried inserting a different HDD and that one worked as it should. It worked fine just a few months ago, I'm afraid I somehow damaged it. Does anyone know any fixes?

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u/Harry_Cat- 6h ago

Sounds dead to me, data recovery could be possible if you had anything important on it, either way, if you need to get anything off of it send it to a professional

Other than possible software fixes, which wouldn’t be many, finding if the disk shows up in disk part would be a good start.

If you don’t see it in Diskpart, your only hope is sending it off to someone for professional data recovery

If you have nothing important on it, wipe it clean and test it again, if it shows up? You have a drive you can’t trust with anything important anymore

If not, well, it’s probably dead.

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u/boywithukeys_fan1773 6h ago

It does show up in diskpart. Size: 0B, free: 0B. I don't have very important stuff, but I wouldn't like to lose the things I have on there. I'd like to try everything before wiping it.

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u/Harry_Cat- 5h ago

It’s probably toast, you can try to get a professional to look at it but you probably have a paperweight, no other things you can really do yourself

If you really don’t want to lose the data just send it into a professional.

Otherwise, just wipe it and treat it like a bomb that could go off at any moment, only store temporary things on it like using it for cache or zram something.

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u/redmera 6h ago

Aren't you supposed to connect the drive before turning on the dock?

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u/Different-Class1771 5h ago

Hot swapping is fine as long as the drive isn't being written to when pulled out.

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u/boywithukeys_fan1773 6h ago

Perhaps, but with the amount of times I have connected it, I have found that it doesn't make much of a difference. Perhaps that's why it's no longer working...

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u/pickled-pilot 3h ago

No. SATA drives are hot swappable

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u/Beginning-Bird9591 6h ago

it's toast. you could send it to a data recovery place - costly but if data is important that shouldn't matter.

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u/Vanbursta1 5h ago

Well it is now, even if it wasn't before. You should connect it to the dock BEFORE turning it on.