Wednesday, there were some issues with regards to my Seagate 3 TB HDD as it was having trouble reading the device. Windows had popped up a "reboot your computer to fix drive issues", which I did. It took a while for the drive to load up in which I attributed to the checking of the disk. I thought nothing of it until the next morning when the drive disappeared from Windows, and any other attempt to load it up would cause the machine to hang. SeaTools says that there is definitely a problem, and any attempt to do a long scan fails as it says it is unable to communicate with the drive. I did attempt to try to do a partition clone to a new drive but the whole device failed before it would complete. Now it won't start up at all, and my computer is having trouble resolving it when it boots up.
The reason I ask if it is a controller board issue is that if it is, and not due to a head or sector issue, then perhaps the controller board can be replaced, that is if I can find the appropriate part to replace it with. Either way, it just means that the data on that drive is still intact and recoverable, but there may need to be some expertise involved.
Has anyone had this kind of failure before?
Thanks