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Hard Drive Dead?
So I just wanted to make sure that I covered all the basis and see if there is something I missed before sending the drive back.
I have a Western Digital 750GB Black hard drive. It was fine until I got a notice that there were 47 "weak" sectors and that remapping them later will fix that or something of that nature. I pulled my data off the drive and those are just fine.
So I ran the chkdsk /r and off it went and off I went to bed. During the night we had a storm and the power went out (seeing the blinking red lights on my clock) so after the coffee went to check on the system and it was off. I started it up and now there was no storage drive. I can see it in Computer Management, but I cannot initialize it, format it, just nothing. I looked in the BIOS and it says it is not there. I used the datarescue tool (whatever it's called) from WD and it cannot find it. I tried using Gparted and Minitool Partion Wizard. Gparted does not see it, but the Minitool does, but cannot do anything with it; just like in Computer Management. I tried CMD and used diskpart and list disk and it too does not see the drive.
Anything else I can try or did last nights storm hose the drive during chkdsk? Again, no biggie for me as the data was moved and I also have it backed up from 2 days ago.