I pulled out a hard drive from a dead PC my dad found thrown away and on the label it didn’t state the size of the hard drive. So I connected it to my PC to find out but Windows didn’t detect it. I went to Administrator Tools –> Computer Management –> Storage –> Disk Management and it didn’t appear there either. I searched for drivers and that didn’t work. Not even Ubuntu detected it and I even booted Ubuntu from the live CD to use GParted but not even that detected the hard drive.
What’s the problem? Is it because the hard drive is dead or something? The hard drive runs when I connect it to my computer but doesn’t appear on Windows or Linux.
No it doesn’t make any clicking noise I can only hear it spin.
Well just because a computer is in the trash doesn’t necessarily mean it’s completely broken. My dad found a second one along with this one and it works perfectly fine and just needed the heatsink replaced and the replacement was from the one with the dead hard drive. They are both Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM which I upgraded the working one to 1 GB from the RAM modules from some other PC my dead found in the trash.
The hard drive is probably toast. That’s why it was in the trash. Just because it spins doe not mean that it works.
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does the harddrive make a clicking noise when its spinning?
if it clicks its broken
or something else is wrong with it
either way its shot
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the hard drive might be dead, but also you need to put the pin on the back of it on cable select so that way it doesn’t think it is the same hard drive or something of the such.
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the hard drive might be dead, but also you need to put the pin on the back of it on cable select so that way it doesn’t think it is the same hard drive or something of the such.
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The first step to find out if a hard drive is good or bad is to run a hard drive diagnostic on it. If the label on the drive states the maker, go to their website and download a diagnostic program for the drive and test it. If you do not know the maker of the drive you can use the drive fitness test in the first link below. THe utility from the drive maker will be more complete and accurate but both will analyze the drive.
Hint: If gparted cannot “find” the drive it is in bad shape and I would not trust it with my data, even if it can be rehabilitated.
Good luck
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