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2TB HDD stopped working, got another chip but still won't work
My 2 TB HDD Seagate Barracuda LP ST32000542AS went dead a while ago, my windows froze and the HDD was never recognized again by windows! What did I do, I got another one with the same chip and I traded chips with my HDD, it doesn't even gets recognized by the motherboard, but it does with the original chip, I then tried a backup utility called Acronis true image 2010, I manage to get some files out of it but, the process in question takes ages to work, but I'm pretty confident I can backup the entire HDD... but would take about a month by the looks of it
So if anyone with more knowledge than me on the subject could help me out I'll be more than grateful, any ideas will be helping me, why it doesn't work with the other chip? Why did it die? I really don't know what is going on, but I sure can use the help, the HDD is about 1.3TB filled and I manage to get about 200MB thus far and 3 files were corrupted (I don't mind) all the rest was intact and working (video and audio and even software), please help I don't know what to do and I don't have 2grand to pay for the professionals of this area, when the HDD died it was only 2 months old, but since it was filled and I had no backup (not doing that again) I couldn't use the warranty or I'd just loose all my files
I'm using the CD ISO file created with Acronis true image 2010, so the HDD is recognized via DOS and the Mother board also recognize it, once I get into windows it install and it only vanishes when I try to access it, it gives me the same error on Windows 7 64 and XP, maybe someone with knowledge know exactly what is going on and it's easy to solve (I'd love that very much), Using Acronis I can access the folder structure as it was before, once I start copying things to my other HDDs it takes alot of time, mainly depending on how many files there are not based on size unless it's a really big file, but I can read the entire HDD, and as far as I can tell most of it can be backed up using Acronis
When I used the chip from the other HDD (Same nomenclature and very close serial number) it made a very weird noise, like it was reading a massive amount of data...
when it failed I was downloading games from steam onto it
I was using SATA 2 on both system and extra HDDs
sorry about the long post, any help is welcomed, even if you're not the expert if you have an idea it might help, I'm open to suggestions, thanks, I really like this forum guys