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Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown

After nouveau freezing everything with dual monitor for the millionth time I had to cut power on my macbook pro (mid 2010, fedora 24, SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB hard drive). Wasn't doing anything IO heavy ...
filippo's user avatar
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1 vote
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Does spinning harddrive not showing up in BIOS suggest logic board failure?

My 2 TB 3.5" SATA harddrive failed while being used in an USB enclosure. I'm trying to determine the cause based on the symptoms. The drive fails to work in two working SATA-USB enclosures on ...
Andreas's user avatar
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Best way to try to recover a failed hard SATA 3.5" drive?

When I booted my desktop this morning it announced it was scanning and repairing one of my drives. When it finally booted into Windows, the drive showed up, but when I tried to right click it to ...
Codemonkey's user avatar