[MizztaPeppa]

Originally Posted by MizztaPeppa

OK i have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200 gig internal in an external USB case. It's formatted for a mac which i dont have access to at the moment, but anyways. i dropped it on tile now it makes the musical noise that all these people are talking about. ive searched far and wide on the net looking for things to fix it but no luck.

The thing is i plug it into a mac and in the disk utility program it shows up BUT it says its a 2 TERABYTE hard drive when its only 200 gigs...

I plug it into a PC and it makes the ding noise and it knows its a maxtor drive plugged in USB and i run data recovery programs about 5 of them so far, and their all saying 2 terabytes as well. what gives??? i dont even know how its registering when the disk isnt even spinning...im going to try tapping again while plugged in but can somebody please write back or email me which is my name at hotmail.com

PLEASE HELP IM ALSO A DJ WITH ABOUT 190 gigs filled up. not just music but personal things as well.

thats what i said before, now i opened up my hard drive and completely disassembled it to see if there were any stuck arms or motors not turning I SHOULD TAKEN PICTURES SORRY GUYS! and ive narrowed it down to the center of the drive closer to the side that DOESNT have the power and data connections. The center of platters the drives themselves. i took them all out and put my finger where the vibrations come from but i have NO IDEA how to get in to that area its like in the middle of the case, you would probably have to BREAK the case to get in there and even after that i have no idea what could possibly be done. im gonna try to look for some hard drive diagrams on the net.

I was also wandering if i took the actual platters (drives) out and but them in another maxtor do you think they would read???? this is one of the only things i could possibly think of to do without sending it off somewhere.

please someone email me at MizztaPeppa@hotmail.com or myspace message me at myspace.com/mizztapeppa THANX!!!