My hard drive suddenly crashed while playing a game and now it is no longer being properly recgonised by my PC, it is not allowing me to initialize it due to an I/O device error thus i can't even assign it a letter or use the chkdsk command, crystaldiskinfo has the following information regarding it which seems incredibly weirdIt also appear on disk management but even after unistalling it or updating my drivers or even changing the cables and ports i'm having no luck making it workI have used this hard drive for at most 3 months so any help would be appreciated
It you boot into windows you might be able to see it using disk manger or diskpart. If that doesn't work and I don't suppose it will, you may be able to mount it under linux and use tools like gparted, photorec, ddrescue .If it stored hibernation files then linux often won't mount a windows disk unless the computer shutdown in a certain way. You can, though you will lose any unsaved work, delete the hibernation file using linux. The usual way to fix it is to shutdown windows with the drive running but that's not an option here if you can't even mount it in windows. You can also unset the dirty data or unsafe shutdown bit that might have been set it the machine didn't power down properly. You might need to enable support for NTFS drives as not all distros include it by default.A simple distro like Ubuntu or Mint doesn't have a steep learning curve if you haven't used linux before. There are a huge number of websites with pictures and videos that can help you through the process of running linux from a thumbdrive or harddrive and using disk recovery tools to try to repair. I suggest you search for things like how to run linux from thumbdrive and how to fix unmountable windows disk using linux.That power on hours count is several decades long so I don't think those counts are reliable but that you can actually get some data is at least a sign that the hardware controller is functioning to some degree and you may be able to get data from the drive.I would not try to keep using that drive even if you can get it to a state where you can use it normally under windows. Just read the data, return it under warranty.You will need a drive of the same size or more in order to copy data from the failed drive like if using ddrescue to clone it.
SSDs tend to just die without any warning.
>>1560333not OP, I don't know about this.I've been using four different SSDs since 2014 and none have shit the bed on me.They don't "tend to" die, they "can" die without warning, but it's rare.
>>1560323crystaldiskinfo just checks the smart data which is just the drive's self-diagnostics. if the failure mechanism is something not tracked by smart, it's not going to show up in crystaldiskinfo.if you care about getting shit off of it, look into testdisk/photorec. testdisk is for trying to fix things like partition header errors, photorec is if you've given up on trying to salvage the partition metadata and just need a dump of every file you can get off the disk. they're FOSS tools from the same developer.if you don't care about the data, try using diskpart to select the disk (make sure to select the correct disk or you're going to wipe one of your other ones) and do the following commands in sequencecleancreate part primaryformat fs=ntfs quickexitif it fails, you could maybe try doing something equivalent from linux but at that point i'd just cash in on the warranty since it seems too busted to salvage.
>>1560470Incorrect, it's tend not can, because it's describing the situation of when they die. And when they die, they do so without the issues we used to see before with HDDs which had escalating issues till death, they usually just suddenly stop working
Power cycle the SSD. Something similar happened to my C300 when I was benching it, but it's still going strong years after.