Seagate drive for laptop :(

[marine1]

I dropped my laptop
And now my Seagate Drive is ticking and making a beeping noise.
Momentus 320 gig.
Pleas please please there must be a way to get this working again?

 

[|tera|]

Unfortunately not marine1. It's dead.

You are going to pay through your skull for data recovery and they might not even get anything off it.

You need a new hard drive and have it checked if something else isn't bust as well.

 

[Grouter]

Yes, replace the HDD...

 

[marine1]

You have to be kidding me, I can see the one partition but thats it

 

[|tera|]

You have to be kidding me, I can see the one partition but thats it

It's busted. Sorry

 

[marine1]

Is there no way to open it up and fix?

 

[|tera|]

Is there no way to open it up and fix?

Unfortunately not.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

You will need to use data recovery specialists who need to open the drive in a clean room.

 

[marine1]

You would think in this day and age hard drives should be made better. I mean the drive was in a housing in the laptop

 

[Grouter]

You would think in this day and age hard drives should be made better. I mean the drive was in a housing in the laptop

...which you dropped...

 

[marine1]

...which you dropped...

Well I dropped the Laptop. But yes ...............

 

[bwana]

You would think in this day and age hard drives should be made better. I mean the drive was in a housing in the laptop

If resilience is important you should look at getting an SSD as a replacement. Hard drives fail - it's a matter of when, not if.

Or buy two new hdds and back up regularly.

 

[marine1]

If resilience is important you should look at getting an SSD as a replacement. Hard drives fail - it's a matter of when, not if.

Or buy two new hdds and back up regularly.

Good advice, thanks man will look into it

 

[PostmanPot]

Send it to SouthBit, data recovery will be <R2,000.

www.southbit.co.za

 

[SouthBit]

You said it's clicking and beeping, but you can see one partition? If it's clicking it means you probably have head issues or damage to the platter itself. A soft beeping means a jammed motor. So you are able to see the drive in Windows/operating system, but not the data? If I understand what you're trying to say, it spins up and the drive is seen, but only an empty partition and it's clicking every now and then?

NB: The more times you power it on the more difficult/less likely recovery becomes.

 

[marine1]

Thanks guys so you really dont want to know what I did with the drive. Clearly I had a bad day after that and now the drive is in computer heaven. So long

 

[|tera|]

Thanks guys so you really dont want to know what I did with the drive. Clearly I had a bad day after that and now the drive is in computer heaven. So long

I feel sad for you bro

Shame man. I'm sorry you lost the drive.

 

[dabbler]

My condolences....



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[PostmanPot]

Thanks guys so you really dont want to know what I did with the drive. Clearly I had a bad day after that and now the drive is in computer heaven. So long

Keep it and save up for data recovery.

 

[marine1]

Thanks guys but the next thing is I am taking it to the range and going to obliterate it with my M4 rifle.