Oh dear. Next step is to yank out the harddisk and attach it separately on another working computer, and in hope to still be able to read it and try to retrieve and back up data from it. It was not promising as initial connection, already not reading the harddisk. A trick I use, is to connect it with a working harddisk and immediately connect back with the "about to failed" harddisk. It works sometimes, in this case, it did work and I can see the content of the harddisk. But unfortunately, the data still cannot be copied out. It only displays the folder or the file but the data cannot be copied or transferred out. Its a severed harddisk failure.
All data lost. I did come across some companies with specialized tools to be able to recover back the data but unfortunately, the price to do so is extremely expensive. And also, not sure even if the data is recovered, whether it can still be used, is no guarantee.
So, what I want to share is some info I picked off from the internet. Some may still be recoverable but some is forever gone. What and how the reasons to harddisk failure come about and how we can over come the problem.
https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/
