Windows 10: Can you help make a guess for this failing drive ?

I have many hard drives, more than 10, both internal and external. Currently they are all good.

I have a hard drive that is one of the earliest drives, in fact, it's the newest, servicing for less than a year. When a few weeks ago I took it out from the PC chassis, it suddenly started to work wired and did not work at last.

Someone else on the web commented that it's likely to be "short-circuit" and suggested me try to replace the circuit board or get someone to do so.

The drive was never dropped or crashed, I am pretty sure.

What do you think? What do you guess? Can I get it fixed by replacing the circuit board? or will it be a waste of money?

I will not think about data recovery . I know it's expensive, and the data inside doesn't worth that much. Only some not very memorable pictures and 1080p videos

:)

 

Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD

 

help to remote connect

not sure how to use both programs u 2 suggested, i need more helpful steps thanks

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
http://windowsreport.com/drive-windows-installed-locked/