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A computer in my organization is not booting. In BIOS sometimes it showed disk error and I restarted several times. Sometimes it's working and sometimes it's not.

Suddenly today it stopped working and not booting at all. I'm trying to boot a live CD and copy the content. I thought of trying to repair bad sectors but it's not at booting. When I boot hiren's boot cd from USB it is stuck at loading screen for a long time. When I remove the HDD and boot the hiren's boot CD, it working.

I can't connect HDD to motherboard and boot hiren's boot CD.

I tried with other hard disks and it worked fine. It booted with the HDD connected to motherboard.

What should be the problem ?

HDD is detecting in BIOS BTW.

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  • The hard drive has died. Get the Manufacturer's Hardware Test application and run that. This will confirm the status of the drive.
    – John
    May 21, 2020 at 16:52
  • Do you hear the drive spin up?
    – Señor CMasMas
    May 21, 2020 at 17:12
  • Hirens is off topic here.
    – Moab
    May 21, 2020 at 17:29
  • @John's comment would be the recommended way to go, with smartctl doing the same, however, if trying to boot anything results in a hang, and disconnecting the HDD resolves the hang, it's a definite hardware fault on the HDD. To run the S.M.A.R.T tests, disconnect the HDD before booting, plugging it back in before testing, which will allow booting without a hangtime from the system's inability to access the HDD. If the HDD is under warranty, print off the output of smartctl -a /dev/<disk>, which will show the hardware fault, to send with the drive.
    – JW0914
    May 24, 2020 at 12:59
  • You might have a bad line somewhere, data link, power cord. Might need it opened and check all the lines. Retry in BIOS after you replace and/or reset the lines to the hard disk.
    – vssher
    Jun 5, 2020 at 15:04

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Never mind it just took much time to load the os or hiren's boot from the pendrive. The read speeds are very low i thought it stuck in the screen.

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