22nd May 2015, 9:37 AM
Sorry to say it ABF, but from what you describe the drive appears to have failed. If you can't even see it in the BIOS, it's gone. The average life expectancy of a hard drive is about 5 years, so you should be glad it lasted as long as it did, but it's not unexpected it should fail.
Yes, some drives last a lot longer than that expectancy, but don't draw too many unrealistic expectations from those cases. I will suggest this though. Right now, you should be sure to buy Western Digital or Hitachi. At the moment, Seagate seems to be suffering some quality control issues so they've been suffering some pretty bad failure rates.
Yes, some drives last a lot longer than that expectancy, but don't draw too many unrealistic expectations from those cases. I will suggest this though. Right now, you should be sure to buy Western Digital or Hitachi. At the moment, Seagate seems to be suffering some quality control issues so they've been suffering some pretty bad failure rates.
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