HDD do fail and Recovery Partitions are not an option when this happens. But no matter what happens now you should contact Dell and Buy a Recovery Set for this computer. But if it passes the second test the M'Board, Data Lead or Power Lead are damaged and need replacing.Įither way if the Drive is functional you can slip it into an External USB Caddy and read it on another computer to recover your Data or maybe even Clone it to a new HDD if necessary. If it still fails the drive is Dead and in Silicon Heaven. If you want a Accurate Diagnosis of the HDD you need to test it in th original computer and if it fails the test there you need to remove it and test again in a different computer. What you need to do here is test the Drive with the Drive Makers Testing Utility.
Recover anything off the Drive unless you are wiling to spend thousands of $ at a Data Recovery House.
