Recently my PC started to work real slow, it was booting Windows 7 for a couple of minutes though I'm using SSD and many system tools like system recovery were loading extremely slow. Then I noticed one of my HDDs is down. It didn't show any free space and when I checked - it was in RAW state. It's a 3TB HDD I use solely for gaming and storing movies/music. It was the reason behind the slow system, since it was fixed when I unplugged it. So I thought, I'm always the luckiest man with HDDs, but maybe this time I can get it back to life since it's huge and expensive. I googled and found this site and this instruction:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
I followed it, it has found my single partition that I had on this HDD. I checked the files, they were intact on a brief look so I clicked "Write" and confirmed it. In a blink of an eye it told me that I need to reboot for changes to take effect and I clicked OK, closed TestDisk and rebooted. System shut down fast, like the speed issue got fixed, but then it just got stuck in BIOS motherboard opening screen, even before my USB mouse/keyboard are initialized (so I cannot Ctrl+Alt+Del or enter BIOS settings).
Everything works fine without this HDD so I unplugged it for the time being. Is there a chance for me to still continue to use it somehow? Maybe format it, I don't really need that data on it. Or am I f`ed for another tidy sum? I can't even check anything since when it's plugged I'm stuck in BIOS and I don't know how to plug it when PC is loaded, although I have a SATA port on the back, maybe I should get a connector? Or should forget about it and appreciate it's not my important HDD that died tonight?
Hope somebody here can help me
