Hi, TLDR below.
Hard drive took a little spill off the desk the other day. I plugged it in, a few beep noises came FROM the HD, not the computer, and now it isn’t loading up when I try going into it. I hear the disc(s) inside running smoothly and there isn’t any abnormal sounds (other than the beeping when I first plugged it in).
Every once in awhile, it will boot up very, very slowly. Other times, it will show the make shift directories I made inside the Terabyte but nothing inside them. And as of now, it will say it is unable to find or load up the HD.
So what sort of problems am I looking at here? Is there any way I can back up some of the criteria on the HD? Is there a type of diagnostic software I can use, buy, download to scan for problem and solutions?
It is under warranty, but I would hate for me to ship it out and lose all my files without at least doing my best to fix it myself. I plan on reformatting it if I can get an unfortunate solid answer of not being able to salvage my stuff. If that doesn’t work, then I suppose I’ll just send it in.
TLDR version: HD is beeping, discs sounds like they’re running fine. HD not booting up. Has weird nature to it, sometimes it loads (very slowly) sometimes directory doesn’t exist. Need help
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Tagged with: beep • desk • diagnostic software • hard drive • hd • salvage • spill • terabyte • tldr • warranty • weird nature
Filed under: Computer Diagnostic Software
if it isnt working after it got dropped then give up on it. it may sound fine atm, but its not.. specially after those first noises you herd. try to send it back to manufactor for replacement
Well, just a guess, but it’s probably the fact that you spilled something on it.
I had a problem quite similar to this, i’ll tell you how i fixed it (kind of) but would definately not recommend it for you IF you want to keep your warranty. Crack the case open. there will be a usual HD and a small circuit board which has a power button/led. Remove the circuit board and wire the HD directly into your computer. From there you can run recovery programs on the disk. To be honest, when mine hit the floor the circuit board split so using it as an internal HD was ideal for me since it was almost full. As i said tho, think through before you do anything like this because it will Instantly void your warranty. And they will know because there are silver stickers on all the internal screws for the HD.