Is my HDD dead forever?

Posted by Roberto on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Roberto
Published on 2011-02-05T12:35:47Z Indexed on 2011/02/17 7:27 UTC
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Yesterday I turned on my computer and it couldn't boot. I found out the hd (320GB SATA Seagate Momentus 7200.3 for notebook) was broken and it couldn't be recognized by the BIOS.

I have another of the same hard drive, so I exchanged the boards. I found out that there is a problem on its board since my good hard drive didn't work. But the broken hard drive doesn't work with the good board as well: it can be recognized but when I insert a Windows Instalation DVD it says the hard drive is 0GB.

I put it in a case and use it in another computer via USB, and but it doesn't show up in the "My Computer".

I used a software to recover files called "GetDataBack for NTFS", it recognized the hard drive but with the wrong size (2TB). I try to make it read the hard drive but it got an I/O error reading sector. It tries to read, the hard drive spins up.

So, since I'm using a good board on it, the problem seems to be internal. Is there anything someone could do to recover the files from it?

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