Thanks Salem. At least I know now that unless I wanted to pay for professional data recovery (which I understand is expensive) the drive is DEAD. / Still curious if malware might have corrupted the firmware. / I have a forensic level data recovery program, but assume that will not recognize the drive either.
Not the first time i heard of viruses killing firmware though, know someone who had one which installed itself to the MBR so it ran at boot and it maliciously wiped her bios (flashed it with 0s or something i think?). Needed a new mobo.
Thanks Salem. At least I know now that unless I wanted to pay for professional data recovery (which I understand is expensive) the drive is DEAD. / Still curious if malware might have corrupted the firmware. / I have a forensic level data recovery program, but assume that will not recognize the drive either.
I hope you get your problem solved.
I have a question what is the professional data recovery software do you have and do you share?
they were referring to a professional data recovery company ,not software!
Thanks, I have a friend who tried Hard Drive Mechanic and it did not work probably, for the same reason a dead drive and/or a virus hit the firmware.
Very knowledgeable group on this site in all of the threads I have started or joined.
One question. I clicked that two or three of mine were done and I have no credit showing that I solved any???!!!??? Any clues as to what happened after it accepted my solving a thread? Anyone?
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