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HDD not booting up
Hi,
I'm running Win7 on my PC 24/7, and I suspect that some of my SATA ports are failing. It takes 1-2s in the AHCI detection menu during the bootup to detect my HDDs when plugged into certain SATA ports.
My boot HDD, a WD Caviar Black 2TB, was plugged into a suspected failing port, and when I came back to it one day, it was stuck in the insert boot disk screen during bootup. I have since been unable to boot up to it.
I've tried plugging it into other SATA ports. Some of them have no delay during detection, however I get brought to Windows Startup Recovery, which automatically attempts to find and fix startup problems. The screen does say that it could take over an hour, and it has been running for over an hour now...and the thing is still running. My HDD LED is almost perpetually lit, with a blip once every few seconds, so I'm guessing it's still accessing my drive.
How long does it take to fix the drive? I suspect the MBR might be corrupted hence it's not booting up, but shouldn't it be pretty quick to fix the MBR if this was the case? Why would Startup Recovery take so long?
Thanks.