HDD loud whirring off and on, not recognized by motherboard
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I decided to put in an extra hard drive we had laying around the house (Seagate Barracuda 750gb, 7200rpm, probably 1 or 2 years old, was one of my Dad's. He doesn't remember it being a broken drive, just an extra we had). After I put it in and booted up my computer, it made loud whirring sounds, then started doing that off and on at a steady rate, and then started whirring down. The motherboard did not recognize it as being plugged in. When booting up and making this sound, it would freeze at the motherboard flash screen - if I pressed the computer's reset button at this point, the sounds didn't happen again, and it was able to boot to Windows (but still did not recognize the 'new' HDD as being there).
I tried multiple SATA cables and tried them with multiple channels.
[video=youtube;WTSupYBhtDo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTSupYBhtDo[/video]
Sorry for vertical video, this is the first time I have ever recorded a phone video for youtube. Looked fine in windows media player. HDD is already out of the computer, would be a huge pain to remake the video.
Is this a "shit's fucked up, man" kind of sound?
Sounds like the heads are dragging on the platters lol... I think it's toast. But, if it's only 1-2 years old it may be under warranty so that may be worth looking into.
Dear jesus that sounds horrible.
Either the bearings on the motor are fucked, or like Tweak said, it had some sort of horrible head crash. In either case, the drive is dead.
Sounds like its dead, mine go vreeeehhhhhh but it works fine but jeeez. Sounds like you got a skillet in your computer and its trying to flip some flapjacks for yeah.
I had a similar issue with my computer about a year ago. I had two separate hard drives, and after awhile, the second hard drive would suddenly be inaccessible, and anything I was running off of it would crash. The hard drive wasn't making any strange noises, it sounded just fine. However, just before whatever I was running off of it would close, I would hear the drive power down.
Every time the hard drive would power down, Windows would lock up, and I'd be forced to do a system reboot.
So I grabbed a power supply I had laying around my house and used it to power the hard drive that I was having problems with. Problem was solved for me. Eventually I replaced my actual PSU entirely, and now I don't have to use two PSUs for my PC.
So, try that maybe? It's probably too late. That bitch sounds dead as fuck.
Sounds from HDD = BAD
I'm not sure if you said if you can boot into your OS but maybe try and running this:
[url]http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm[/url]
Took a good listen, the platter has been damaged due to the moving head striking the platter, the sound you hear is the moving head dragging over the platter & searching the boot sector, which is not there because there are scratches all over the disc. In other words it is practically ruined.
This sound is also similar to the click of death. It just cannot read the disc anymore.
But what you can try is a RMA on this thing, if it hasn't been physically abused,
that is.
[editline]19th May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=haloguy234;40679590]I had a similar issue with my computer about a year ago. I had two separate hard drives, and after awhile, the second hard drive would suddenly be inaccessible, and anything I was running off of it would crash. The hard drive wasn't making any strange noises, it sounded just fine. However, just before whatever I was running off of it would close, I would hear the drive power down.
Every time the hard drive would power down, Windows would lock up, and I'd be forced to do a system reboot.
So I grabbed a power supply I had laying around my house and used it to power the hard drive that I was having problems with. Problem was solved for me. Eventually I replaced my actual PSU entirely, and now I don't have to use two PSUs for my PC.
So, try that maybe? It's probably too late. That bitch sounds dead as fuck.[/QUOTE]
Not trying to punch your solution in the ground or anything, you had a power issue, this drive
has a physical failure and cannot be used again.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40697404]Not trying to punch your solution in the ground or anything, you had a power issue, this drive has a physical failure and cannot be used again.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I figured it was too late.
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