My external harddrive is now not working... Its making terrible sounds.?

Question

It's a Seagate, 300 GB external harddrive. I got an I/O error message yesterday, then this morning even though the same amount of space was used on it, it told me all my folders were empty, and now it's not working, regardless of how I connect it to the computer... Any ideas?

Answer 1

If it sounds like metal hitting metal .... sorry pal ... it's dead.
Still under warranty maybe ? Look into it.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 2

Well, it's probably toast, sorry to say.

If it's on warranty, talk to seagate. Hopefully your data was just back-up, and you can get a new external drive without worrying about your data on that disk.

If it was crucial information, it can probably be retrieved through a data recovery service...check your local yellow pages.

Answer 3

The media of ur drive has been Fu**d that means the head which reads the stuff on the HDD is now toast. This can happen when u drop it or if somebody shook it

Answer 4

maximum in all danger mechanical failure. The interpreting head might want to be bouncing on the pressure, yet more desirable in all danger that's the motor that spins the pressure or the servo that strikes the interpreting arm(s). It that's the first one, it really is somewhat undesirable, because area of the particularly disc (plate) might want to probably then be damaged. it might want to be the firmware on the pressure one way or the different screwed up. yet, that's particularly frustrating to assert. With operating platforms and hardware that enables you low aspect get admission to to a frustrating pressure, you may doubtlessly screw it up with software. case in point, you'll have inadvertently screwed up its learn table and that's only sitting there attempting to get admission to it, in which case you may want to be blaming it on your newborn like a guy blames a fart on a dogs, lol. No, only kidding. that's probably mechanical or the firmware.