It's showing up in the BIOS, but it's not showing in the Disk Management at all. I also noticed that Windows is slower on startup when it's connected than when it's not connected.
Other than that I can't tell if it's completely failed or even slightly working.
I have a Corsair 850D case and I moved it to a different drive bay and it still wasn't recognized by W7, only the BIOS is recognizing it via a different SATA port. In this case it was moved from SATA2 to SATA4 on the MoBo via the Corsair's hot swap bays.
Some members have created a bootable Linux disc and then managed to salvage files off of a corrupted / dying HD, since it does show in the Bios.
I'll do some research. Thanks for the info, Doc. Much appreciated.
Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console
Paragon Rescue Kit Free Edition 11.0 Free CD
See if Partition Wizard Home Edition will detect the drive, as I've had to rescurrect drives by running Partition Wizard Check File System on the HD.
Then run Partition Wizard Partition surface test
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