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Seagate 7200.4 Momentus

Posted: September 26th, 2014, 12:10
by Treybdatarecovery
This drive gives me 11 beeps upon startup and is not recognized by any of my OS or software, I thought it was stiction at first, but the drive spins up and stays spinning, Thought it was heads until the drive stabalized and stopped beeping. could someone help?

Re: Seagate 7200.4 Momentus

Posted: September 26th, 2014, 15:58
by hhddrec
hey treyb!

i do not think heads stiction. you probably have bad heads or media damage.

clean room needed. you need pro help. see private

Re: Seagate 7200.4 Momentus

Posted: September 26th, 2014, 20:30
by craig6928
is the hard drive picked up in the bios of the computer

if so i would look into head-stack fail as its common with these drives unless it been dropped

Seagate 7200.4 Momentus: 11 beeps upon startup, not recogniz

Posted: September 30th, 2014, 13:47
by Dmitri
Treybdatarecovery wrote:drive gives me 11 beeps upon startup and is not recognized by any of my OS or software, I thought it was stiction at first, but the drive spins up and stays spinning, Thought it was heads until the drive stabalized and stopped beeping. could someone help?

Do you mean beeps or something that at least somehow resembles clicks (maybe smth like music box sounds)?
Beeps mean stiction, but you said the drive spins up.

If so, then it's at least bad heads, possibly media damage.