I bought a HITACHI Deskstar 7K250 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 hard drive about 6 months ago. I was surfing the internet today and suddenly my computer kinda froze up. I could still move my mouse and minimize my browser, but my windows taskbar wasn't responding. I restarted thinking that my browser probably just froze up. When the computer would usually list all the IDE drives, it stopped for a bit. After a while, it'd continue and it'd try to start up as if there wasn't a hard drive in my computer. I restarted and the same thing happened. After it finished scanning for hte hard drive that "wasn't there", I started up the bios. My hard drive wasnt' detected. I've tried reseting the bios to it's original optimized settings. I've tried going into the bios and manually scanning each IDE port for hard drives but no luck. I'm running off my old RAID drive right now, and every thing else in my computer seems to be working fine.
I've concluded that my hard drive is dead and have contacted Newegg.com about the warranty, but I'm not completely sure. Could this kind of thing happen through a virus or spyware? Or should I just ship this thing back to newegg and morn for my lost data?
I've concluded that my hard drive is dead and have contacted Newegg.com about the warranty, but I'm not completely sure. Could this kind of thing happen through a virus or spyware? Or should I just ship this thing back to newegg and morn for my lost data?