Two days ago, my home PC running Windows 10 went to sleep....and never woke up. After powering off and back on, the boot gave a BIOS checksum error and after recovery it hangs on "Verifying DMI Pool Data". I disconnected every drive, and low and behold, once the MAIN drive was disconnected, it will boot from CDRom to Lubuntu.
So.....Im assuming this means my HD has died. So I have a couple of questions:
1.) What are the odds Im able to connect this to the computer after getting everything up and running and recover ANYTHING off of it. Most everything is backed up except for a few things. Lubuntu actually SEES the drive, but Im running this OS off the CDROM.
2.) The current drive is Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM
It was cheap...and this is why. I need something better, not break the bank expensive, but comparable and hopefully more reliable. Every time I upgrade my PC, i put the old drive as additional storage...I LITERALLY have 15 year old drives on this thing that are cranking right along.
So.....Im assuming this means my HD has died. So I have a couple of questions:
1.) What are the odds Im able to connect this to the computer after getting everything up and running and recover ANYTHING off of it. Most everything is backed up except for a few things. Lubuntu actually SEES the drive, but Im running this OS off the CDROM.
2.) The current drive is Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM
It was cheap...and this is why. I need something better, not break the bank expensive, but comparable and hopefully more reliable. Every time I upgrade my PC, i put the old drive as additional storage...I LITERALLY have 15 year old drives on this thing that are cranking right along.