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Hard drive clicking/beep

  • 27-08-2011 6:44pm
    #1
    The Black Oil
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    As mentioned in this thread, earlier this month I dropped my hard drive/media player thing. At the time, it sounded completely fecked with a very low pitched sound and little movement out of it, as if it was unable to do anything at all. Since then, I opened it up a little, though not completely as I don't have all the requisite tools. Now, there's more life to it and power going through it...it sounds healthier than it was, but I know that the probability of getting it back in working order isn't great. Now it's beeping, something it wasn't doing before, and the arm is moving as if it's trying to read the disk (I could be wrong here, don't know much about this end of HDs).

    Obviously beeping isn't a good sign and I'm not all that optimistic of further improvements, but is there anything I can do to try and salvage it? This clip on Youtube is about the same type of sound I'm getting.

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  • #2
    njd2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭njd2010


    Ouch.It sounds as if you're trying to save it long enough to move your information onto a newer HDD (Since it's probably never going to be well enough to go back into normal use anyway)

    There may be a way. It is deep magic, and entirely a last resort saved only for desperate, determined souls with nothing else left to lose. It's worth considering at least, but I'm not sure how much it's going to help you here.

    Good Luck!


  • #3
    The Black Oil
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    Well, it's not essential to have the data (mainly videos) because I have them elsewhere, but a spare player would be handy. Freezing looks a bit mad!

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  • #4
    njd2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭njd2010


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Well, it's not essential to have the data (mainly videos) because I have them elsewhere, but a spare player would be handy. Freezing looks a bit mad!
    Ah, I see...Then that method is certainly not for you, since this is meant as a temporary fix.

    I've actually never heard of anyone totally repairing a HDD when it gets to this point... I'm not really sure it could be done. HDD's aren't the kind of thing you can really open and repair, since even if you could fix whatever mechanical problem it was there, I'd imagine you'd have a dust problem. Maybe someone else here has some more sage advice, but I'd say save yourself the hassle and buy yourself a new media player.


  • #5
    Lundar.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭Lundar.


    Hi The Black Oil

    By opening the hard-drive, you have broken the airtight seal that keeps dust of the hard-drive(they are packaged in a extremely clean room, cleaner than a operating room ). also from the fall you have more than likely scratched the surface of the hard-drive. making it very difficult to recover the data . The Reading/writing head literally hovers less than a hair thickness away for the surface of the hard-drive.

    525pxharddriveensvg.png

    There are some specialists that might be able to recover the data, but recovering data is a difficult and time consuming task.

    i wouldn't bother tbh, just buy a new drive ,as more than likely the drive is unrecoverable


  • #6
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Ah, I see. Thanks. I had thought, probably due to Youtube clips (don't think they took too many precautions beyond gloves and anti-static bands), that it might be salvageable. Already sorted with a new drive, was merely hoping to keep the damaged one lying around somewhere just in case. But if there's no joy, I'll take a hammer to it and recycle it. ;)

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  • #7
    freestyla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭freestyla


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    ... But if there's no joy, I'll take a hammer to it and recycle it. ;)

    It's more fun to see sparkles when tow it with a car at night ;)


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