Hello,
I've got a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 here which is recognized by Windows (drivers are automatically installed) and a new Drive with a Drive letter being assigned shows up. But theres no indicator next to the drive letter showing the filesystem / name of the drive or the space thats used.
Also, after turning it on, the drive makes these sounds:
http://venion.net/files/sound_a.wavIt repeats that same pattern you can hear there (multiple times in the audio-file) for approx. 20 times and then remains running but doesnt make those clicking sounds anymore.
So far, I've tried SeaTools for Windows which was able to tell me some infos about the drive, like that it has 250,06 GB total and just 1123 hours of operation behind itself (its an external drive), but the short and long tests SeaTools offered failed after half a minute each.
From all this information I would think that there is some kind of mechanical problem, since the said information could be taken from the drive by SeaTools, but further accessing it fails, while it emits sounds that sound like its repeatedly trying to find something on itself.
Can you please give me any hints on what all this could indicate and how I could proceed?