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najevi · January 18th, 2007, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _DigDug_

OK I have no idea what to do. Found this in good btw

250GB hdd, makes the beeping sound. NEED to access the files on it, but banging it or *tapping* as you lot call it, doesn't work

Whats this freezing malarky on about? Does it work with this particular problem?

The "magic touch" for my failing HDD was to

power down and disconnect the HDD.
hold the HDD horizontal (i.e. label facing up) with one hand and then rapidly rotate/twist the HDD in CW and then ACW directions pausing briefly in between (the idea being to cause the platters to turn a little without opening up the HDD case - Note: there is a chance of some surface damage as the heads come unstuck!)
reconnect and power on.
repeat 1,2,3 if HDD is still generating the 'melody'

I was able to access and move all data to a safe location. Ironically the drive has served me well for over a month since that remedy. I only use it for very low priority data that I can afford to lose.

Good luck.

mujjuman · January 18th, 2007, 10:26 AM

hope you have another hard drive though

howste · January 18th, 2007, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by najevi

The "magic touch" for my failing HDD was to

power down and disconnect the HDD.
hold the HDD horizontal (i.e. label facing up) with one hand and then rapidly rotate/twist the HDD in CW and then ACW directions pausing briefly in between (the idea being to cause the platters to turn a little without opening up the HDD case - Note: there is a chance of some surface damage as the heads come unstuck!)
reconnect and power on.
repeat 1,2,3 if HDD is still generating the 'melody'

I was able to access and move all data to a safe location. Ironically the drive has served me well for over a month since that remedy. I only use it for very low priority data that I can afford to lose.

Good luck.

That's an interesting method that I haven't heard of before. I may have to try that next time...

mujjuman · January 18th, 2007, 02:37 PM

hopefully there wont be a next time

howste · January 18th, 2007, 03:34 PM

But the odds are that there will be...

_DigDug_ · January 18th, 2007, 07:37 PM

BUGGER :'( well freezing it didnt work. 60GB of data...gone :|

howste · January 18th, 2007, 10:47 PM

Bummer.

mujjuman · January 19th, 2007, 05:19 AM

i feel your pain dude

_DigDug_ · January 22nd, 2007, 06:50 PM

OK well since then, my other maxtor hard drive ( master ) has stopped working now as well. Disc still spins and it reads on another computer ( linked with USB) as being unpartitioned. Anyone know of any good FREE data recovery programs I could use to get some files back? Im using this trial just now and its reading basically all my files but I would need to pay for it to get them, which is a bit of a bummer. Also with regards to my singing 250GB, you have to pay for postage to get an RMA? Surely maxtor should pay for it as its a manufacturing default. I live in the UK as well which means postage isnt going to be very cheap...

Zebulon · February 12th, 2007, 12:26 PM

Hi all!

Just wanted to say Hi, first post, and yes, I have a Musical Maxtor, too!

In the "believe it or not" category, the Maxtor was acting as a temporary solution to our OTHER storage unit failing, the infamous "Toaster", the Netgear SC-101. That thing had died a horrible death (and took the CEO from Dataplow to get it back up and running, I kid you not). Our Design department didn't trust the Toaster any more (and I can't blame them), so they were using a Maxtor One Touch II with 200Gb of storage until I could get them a storage server built.

Needless to say, they aren't happy people right now.

I've got my drive in the freezer right now, hoping for a miracle (though I ALSO have a signed req for $1300 worth of invasive data recovery).

I'll let everyone know if the freezer thing pans out (the thumping and spinning didn't)

Great community, guys!