1.5TB HDD making beeping sounds and shows up as a 4GB HDD

[lachdanan]

Hi guys,

Yesterday one of my Seagate Barracuda HDDs started beeping and it disappeared from my system. I restarted and remounted it on my HDD docking station but same beeping sounds and same results. I recorded the beeping here:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Gq88Q1kd4I

At the end of the recording it actually stopped beeping.

Now when I mount it Windows sees it as st_m13fqbl HDD and claims the capacity is 4GB. Of course I don't see this drive in My Computer. It just shows up as the name of the HDD whose drivers just got installed.

Is there a way I can fix this and read the data from it? Can it be related to HDD heads that might be stuck? I saw a youtube video where the guy was resetting the heads. Not sure if that's my problem.



Thanks in advance.

 

[Piotrsama]

Can you try it on other PC and see how it shows up?

 

[sm625]

http://www.milos.ivanovic.co.nz/blog/218

 

[Elixer]

Hi guys,

Yesterday one of my Seagate Barracuda HDDs started beeping and it disappeared from my system. I restarted and remounted it on my HDD docking station but same beeping sounds and same results. I recorded the beeping here:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Gq88Q1kd4I

At the end of the recording it actually stopped beeping.

Now when I mount it Windows sees it as st_m13fqbl HDD and claims the capacity is 4GB. Of course I don't see this drive in My Computer. It just shows up as the name of the HDD whose drivers just got installed.

Is there a way I can fix this and read the data from it? Can it be related to HDD heads that might be stuck? I saw a youtube video where the guy was resetting the heads. Not sure if that's my problem.



Thanks in advance.

If this is important data, then, your ONLY solution is to take it to the pros to recover the data.
If this falls under, something you want to try to recover, but, you don't want to pay lots of $$$ to have a recovery service to attempt to fix it, then, your best bet is to see if another machine can see it, like what was mentioned.
If so, backup the data ASAP.

The beeping noise is usually a sign of failure.

 

[lachdanan]

Thanks I tried putting it to another PC but same result

 

[birthdaymonkey]

My sister's laptop hard drive (also a Seagate) died on her a couple month ago. It had many years of photos on it, which were of course not backed up.

Turns out Seagate now has a $500 flat rate to recover your data and give it back to you on a new portable. Must be a lucrative business for them with all their failing drives. Anyway, at least she got her photos back. In this sort of sudden and complete failure, it's usually the motor or the circuit board that's crapped out, and chances are good that your data is still safely on the disk.

 

[XavierMace]

Turns out Seagate now has a $500 flat rate to recover your data and give it back to you on a new portable. Must be a lucrative business for them with people being too lazy/clueless to backup important data.

Fixed that for you.

 

[datarecoveryguy]

This sounds like a head crash as you can clearly hear the heads swing back and forth. It will need clean room work for this type of failure.

 

[Zodiark1593]

My sister's laptop hard drive (also a Seagate) died on her a couple month ago. It had many years of photos on it, which were of course not backed up.

Turns out Seagate now has a $500 flat rate to recover your data and give it back to you on a new portable. Must be a lucrative business for them with all their failing drives. Anyway, at least she got her photos back. In this sort of sudden and complete failure, it's usually the motor or the circuit board that's crapped out, and chances are good that your data is still safely on the disk.

Not too bad a price for a data recovery job. However, still more expensive than a couple more backup drives.

 

[datarecoveryguy]

I highly dough s head swap will be $500

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sounds like it's probablyt a 7200.11. Those are basically like the IBM Deathstars. They don't have a chance of failing, they just fail, period. It's probably dead. Hopefully you have backups.

 

[datarecoveryguy]

They were the IBM (Hitachi) deskstar drives that were called the deathstars not Maxtor.

 

[Red Squirrel]

They were the IBM (Hitachi) deskstar drives that were called the deathstars not Maxtor.

Knew that, no idea why I said Maxtor. Then again those were notorious for failing too. Fixed.

Current Hitachi's are actually really good drives though.