Hard disk crashed - out of the blue! Error screenshot attached

[effml]

Hi all,

My first post here.

My hard drive crashed some time back! :| It doesn't get detected BIOS whatsoever. It's a 500 GB Seagate disk.

All I did was this:

Returned from work and switched on the desktop.

Windows seemed to boot and was stuck in the welcome screen. After a while I hard restarted my computer and well, the rest is history!! No boot..

Till last night before I shutdown the desktop, my computer has been performing just great - no crashes, no issues, no nothing basically since the day Windows 7 went RTM - yes, I grabbed a copy right on day 1 and Windows 7 has been pretty much a great OS

Here are the error screenshots I captured:

 

[yowanvista]

Try to use another SATA port on your motherboard and check the cables, is the HDD operating when the PC is switched on?

 

[effml]

Try to use another SATA port on your motherboard and check the cables, is the HDD operating when the PC is switched on?

No, it isn't. I've currently started windows 7 using another hard disk and the other hard disk (the crashed HD) doesn't get recognized neither in the BIOS nor Disk Management!

 

[Jonathan_King]

The best diagnostic you can do would be to test the drive in another machine; is it recognized with that machine's power supply, motherboard, and SATA cables?

If not, toss the drive, or RMA it if it's under warranty still.