Seagate Freeagent 1TB - broken

Dolby

Dolby

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As some of may remember, I lent to 1TB external that I bought 2 months ago to a friend at work. When I got it back, it looked seriously used, scratched and woen and I thought the worst ...

I was right. She said the drive stopped working one night and that was that. I couldn't take it back because a) I had no slip and b) the condition of the unit looked like it had been dropped

All the unit did was buzz when plugged in, no recognision or anything. I had nothing to lose and ripped open the case to pull out the HDD inside : a Seagate 7200.11.

Now I'm thinking there is a slight chance it did just break, like all the others. The other thing I'm thinking is can I swop it Seagate as an internal?

What do the fsckd 7200.11 actually do?
 
since your friend seemed to have seriously used (and abused) the drive I would ask her to carry the costs. :-)
Have you tried connecting it as an internal to your pc yet?
 
Have you tried plugging the drive into a PC? See if it was just the enclosure that was broken?
 
The serial number which is used to identify the HDD, will propably prevent you from being able to swop it out as an internal only HDD.
 
I haven't tried to put it in the PC yet ... maybe tonight :/

But if it just buzzes in the PC, I'm hoping I can do something :/

You're probably right iDol *sigh*
 
It could just be the internal switch mode power supply in the external casing that is toasted, making the buzzing sound. As suggested, plugging into a PC should determine that.
 
I only ripped it apart last night ;)

Now I'm at work ; later I'm drinking then I may sleep ... so it depends on how active I am! But I was thinking in a worse case scenario, is there soething I could do *if* it's fscked
 
Dolby said:
As some of may remember, I lent to 1TB external that I bought 2 months ago to a friend at work. When I got it back, it looked seriously used, scratched and woen and I thought the worst ...

I was right. She said the drive stopped working one night and that was that. I couldn't take it back because a) I had no slip and b) the condition of the unit looked like it had been dropped

All the unit did was buzz when plugged in, no recognision or anything. I had nothing to lose and ripped open the case to pull out the HDD inside : a Seagate 7200.11.

Now I'm thinking there is a slight chance it did just break, like all the others. The other thing I'm thinking is can I swop it Seagate as an internal?

What do the fsckd 7200.11 actually do?
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If you are in the Cape Town area, pm me, maybe we can get it sorted. Maybe!! :)
 
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Plugged in my PC at home - and same thing 'buzz buzz buzz' :/

I didn't have extra SATA cables to make it a slave, so I disconnected my main HDD and used this. I'm right in saying that the BIOS should at least have picked it up, even with no OS or anything? So it's fooked?

What's the freezer trick I've heard about? Urban legand?

Johnny - in Gauteng :(
 
'buzz buzz buzz' doesn't help really...

does it go on?
can you hear the platters spin/heads moving?
does it click?

the bios should have picked it up, yeah - freezer trick works on clicking drives - not sure if that's going to help you....
 
no clicking ... just bzzz *pause for half second* bzzzz and it continues

Oh well - put it in the freezer last night, so will try tonight :)
 
when putting it in the freezer you only have a short time window that it will work though.

good luck.
 
Freezer trick didn't work either. Blah

*tosses drive*
 
So my Free Agent Desk 1TB died last nyt! :( sob sob.. Stupid inferior products.. Tried everything from seagate tools to chkdsk to format.. nothing.. It spins and I'm able to populate the volume data but keep getting I/O error with the drive and thus unable to access the disk..
 
Seagate's quality has really dropped in recent years
 
may as well have.. same out come.. Did the whole clicking thing then died..
 
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