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acctman

Post subject: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 6th, 2009, 19:26

Joined: October 6th, 2009, 19:07
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Location: USA, GA

Hi I have a Seagate FreeAgent 500gb hard drive that is no longer being detect and is making a grinding sound. The hard drive fell on the floor. Does the hard drive head need to be replace?

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thatdellguy

Post subject: Re: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 6th, 2009, 19:37

Joined: August 19th, 2007, 17:30
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Location: In your hard drive.

Time for RMA... :mrgreen:

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acctman

Post subject: Re: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 6th, 2009, 23:45

Joined: October 6th, 2009, 19:07
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thatdellguy wrote:

Time for RMA... :mrgreen:

can the data be retrieved and what would cause the grinding sound?

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Zero Alpha

Post subject: Re: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 2:41

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The grinding sound is either the bearings or your data being turned into dust.

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 2:43

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If you need the data, then this one NEEDS to go to a pro. There is NOTHING you can do for this one I'm afraid to say.

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acctman

Post subject: Re: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 10:51

Joined: October 6th, 2009, 19:07
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Zero Alpha wrote:

The grinding sound is either the bearings or your data being turned into dust.

i think its the bearings, cause when i pick up the drive (I removed the drive from the external FreeAgent case) it sounds like its wombling inside.

just a rough estimate if it was the bearings how much would it cost to fix?

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Hard Drive not working, grinding sound.

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 13:56

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Ah ha!

Broken spindle, 99% for sure.

Have done these before, any decent pro should be able to handle this.

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