Hi Guys

Wondering if any one has a solution for this.

I have a Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB that on power up clicks/beeps every 3 seconds. This happened suddenly.

It used to be housed in a maxtor basic desktop caddy and I took it apart as some people mentioned that it might be to do with the power supply in the caddy. Alas it wasn't that.

I've been on the phone with seagate and they've been thoroughly unhelpful and i365 (seagates data recovery arm) which want £3000 if they can recover the data.

Is there an easier way? I don't have that kind of cash to be spending. Before any of you start saying I should've backed up my data, this drive was my back up drive (Thanks to the seagate dude that also made the same remark).

Any help would be much appreciated, otherwise any one that can recommend a cheap alternative for the recovery would be most welcomed too.

C

If this drive is your back up drive, why don't you get the data from the oringial drive? A backup is a copy, you should have another copy. If not, this drive is not a backup drive.

there isnt anything you can do. You will need to obtain a quote for data recovery. google... Data Recovery London, get quotes off as many companies as possible, research each company and then make your decision. Expect to pay around £250 - £1500 depending on who you go with and the actual fault.

Or you can contact PCImage on this forum, he is in the UK and much more reliable than most companies.

Thanks HDD Spaz

I'll try that. the drive is only 4 months old which is very annoy!

Anyone else have this problem with this firmware?

It's making the same noise as the folloing video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnVWEGtjpBg

You have PM

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Sorry everyone, the previous link was incorrect, should be this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw12IvMcB7o

Ah, right.

That's seized 99% for sure (with a very slim chance of stiction)

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