If my hard drive is making this noise, what could it mean?

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daniel83
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If my hard drive is making this noise, what could it mean?

November 27th, 2015, 23:17

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My drive spins up and then gets stuck in the beep-click loop. I'm asking any gurus if they have any ideas what the problem could be as I consider data recovery. Any help is much appreciated. :)
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Re: If my hard drive is making this noise, what could it mea

November 28th, 2015, 7:16

It means that it has pretty severe physical issues. Bad heads at least and quite probably media damage :-(
daniel83
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Re: If my hard drive is making this noise, what could it mea

November 28th, 2015, 11:58

Okay thanks. Is this something I can fix myself with a donor drive?
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Re: If my hard drive is making this noise, what could it mea

November 28th, 2015, 16:23

short very serious answer if the data is important go you - and I bet it is important to you:

no
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