Is my Hard Drive dead?
Hey everyone, I think I messed up.
I was backing up my Windows (C:) partition, which was around 100Gb , instead of copying folder by folder, i got lazy and selected all and started bulk copying onto my hard drive .
Whole night it ran, it gave me the estimated time of a day or two and speed was god damn too slow sometimes it did reach around 110- 120MB/s, i was touching the pcb to check whether it became hot and yea it kinda did get hot, so I thought of giving it a break and I paused the transfer letting it cool I thought giving it a break would help, so I paused and resumed the transfer multiple times throughout the night to let it cool down.
In the morning it was around 93% and the transfer speeds were around KB/s and even bytes/s and there was only 6 GB left and then it started to sound like that . I waited a while and the progress bar wasn't moving and the hard drive was at idle with 100% usage making that noise so I decided to cancel. It did get cancelled but the drive was still making that noise and it was still showing 100% usage in task manager, so I tried to eject the drive but it wouldn't let me so I tried to shut down my pc and it wouldn't let me :/, so i did a forced shut down, now that my pc rebooted up the drive is making the same noise except there's no drive detected in the disk management, did I messed up bad?
Did I fry the PCB? Is the arm stuck?
It is a Western Digital WD10EZEX 3.5" drive i was using a sata to usb adaptor for transferring files. The drive had no bad sectors, and wasn't used much around 600gb was used out of 1 Tb