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HDD Question/HELP!!!!

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:05 pm
by strykr535
Ok i rly hope someone can help me out with this one, i have an external hdd its a Seagate 1000Gbytes it was on and i reached for something on the desk and it fell behind the desk now my pc wont pick it up and its making a wierd buzzing sound like its trying to load if its toast i need to know if theres any way possible to get some data off it i have pics of my son and daughter on there that i dont have backups of...my wife is gonna kill me :o :o :o

Re: HDD Question/HELP!!!!

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:10 pm
by sccrbrandon4788
Could be a fan that's built in to keep it cool... otherwise your screwed because it might have knocked the arm loose inside and its hitting the disks...

Re: HDD Question/HELP!!!!

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:17 pm
by sadalius
Thats what it sounds like to me, the read arm landed on a platter, thats bad news man......

Re: HDD Question/HELP!!!!

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:59 am
by strykr535
yea it was the arm had a friend of mine look at it its toast this sucks.... thanxs for the input tho

Re: HDD Question/HELP!!!!

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:56 pm
by xXwhygodwhyXx
check the cords they might need to be inserted better, it probably knocked it out of position.

Re: HDD Question/HELP!!!!

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:50 am
by shaadisankalp
Hard disk drive are used computer. Heart of the computer. Hard disk is store Large amount of data. Data is read us random access memory.