Windows HDD crashes disc utility (read for more info)

[elf69]

A friend has a crappy little windows netbook 1GHz dual core (not atom).

She got tons (last time I did this 98GB, 6 months ago) photos of her kids!

So once again it will not boot, this is 3rd time on this lump of junk!
It gets to windows logo (8.1) then black screen and nothing more.

So pulled HDD and connected to my 2007 iMac, disc utility will not show ANY discs with her drive plugged in.
Remove it and the drives show up.

So tried in my 2012 MacBook Air, same result.

To me says duff HDD.

You agree with me?

 

[Fishrrman]

Are you just trying to mount the drive "on the desktop"?

Try opening Disk Utility and see if DU is able to "see" the physical presence of the drive on the bus, even if the drive won't actually "mount up" on the desktop.

Is it there?

 

[elf69]

DU has spinning ball will not show ANY drive.

as soon as unplug the windows drive then internal and TM drive show in DU.

That's what I'm saying DU is not working with this drive plugged in.

 

[Fishrrman]

Take it to a Windows PC and try "Spinrite" on it.

 

[chown33]

DU has spinning ball will not show ANY drive.

as soon as unplug the windows drive then internal and TM drive show in DU.

That's what I'm saying DU is not working with this drive plugged in.

Plugged into which interface? SATA, USB, Firewire, something else?

 

[elf69]

USB to SATA bridge.

If put another drive in the bridge, all is ok so think drive messed up/dead

Will have take machine to work to test drive on windows as binned/sold all my windows machines.
Only Mac at home and so much better

 

[ZapNZs]

Try to see if you can read it in Ubuntu, where you can also pull SMART metrics from it. In the case of both failing drives and file corruption (with both Windows and Mac HDDs), for some reason trying to pull files using Linux seems to sometimes have more success.