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Dead hard disk with musical beeps
My hard disk (Maxtor Diamondmax Plus, 80GB, nearly two years old)
unexpectedly died this morning. At power up it doesn't spin-up, instead it beeps/chimes a few times. 1) any suggestions on how to revive the disk? The data is not important enough to spend hundreds of dollars for data recovery, but I would like to save some of it. 2) what is the meaning of the musical beeps from the hard disk? The sound is somewhat similar to a mobile phone melody. It definitely comes from the hard disk, not the motherboard. It is generated during the failed attempts to spin-up. It is even generated with the data cable disconnected, only the power cable must be connected. |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:58:49 +0200, "Arnold"
wrote: My hard disk (Maxtor Diamondmax Plus, 80GB, nearly two years old) unexpectedly died this morning. At power up it doesn't spin-up, instead it beeps/chimes a few times. 1) any suggestions on how to revive the disk? The data is not important enough to spend hundreds of dollars for data recovery, but I would like to save some of it. Likely you can't but there's the good ole put-in-freezer-overnight trick, kept in an airtight bag. 2) what is the meaning of the musical beeps from the hard disk? The sound is somewhat similar to a mobile phone melody. It definitely comes from the hard disk, not the motherboard. It is generated during the failed attempts to spin-up. It is even generated with the data cable disconnected, only the power cable must be connected. It means the drive is dead? |
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"kony" wrote:
My hard disk (Maxtor Diamondmax Plus, 80GB, nearly two years old) unexpectedly died this morning. At power up it doesn't spin-up, instead it beeps/chimes a few times. 1) any suggestions on how to revive the disk? The data is not important enough to spend hundreds of dollars for data recovery, but I would like to save some of it. Likely you can't but there's the good ole put-in-freezer-overnight trick, kept in an airtight bag. Fortunately the disk is alive again. Somewhere else I read that in the past Maxtor drives occasionally had problems with "stiction" where the spindle bearings became frozen and the drive would not spin up. One suggestion was to tap the drive with a rubber mallet in such a way as to coerce the spindle free. In my case, a gentle tap worked, so I could save my data. The drive now seems to be fine, able to spin-up many times (but I'll throw it away anyway). 2) what is the meaning of the musical beeps from the hard disk? The sound is somewhat similar to a mobile phone melody. It definitely comes from the hard disk, not the motherboard. It is generated during the failed attempts to spin-up. It is even generated with the data cable disconnected, only the power cable must be connected. It means the drive is dead? No, the tune was rather lively (http://www.techimo.com/maxtorbeeps.mp3); it probably meant "if you kiss me I'll open my eyes". Another victim opened a similar crashed Maxtor disk (http://www.techimo.com/forum/t43161.html) to locate the source of the sound. It seems to come from a kind of air filter, a small plastic box that contains tiny metal beads. |
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