My Maxtor Dimond Plus 9, 120GB hard drive failed. It makes musical beeps and very few people have had this problem. I only found one person that suffered the same fate. Heres a link.
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t43161.html .... Listen to the sound he posted, thats exactly what my drive does. For what its worth, I used the drive without a problem for a little over a year before it broke.
Now, I am faced with two options. 1) Open the drive up like this guy did, (but I don't understand what to do exactly) or 2) Put the drive in the freezer for like an hour and see if that will fix it.
I have already installed a new hard drive to transfer all of the data as quickly as possible. I aslo bought a DVD burner to back up my other hard drive and make back ups as soon as I can of my lost data, thats if I can get it spinning for a little bit.
What do you think I should try first, which is the safest option I mean without making things worse? I have never opened up a drive before and don't even know what tools I would need for the operation. The screws are star shaped not your regular philips or strait edge.
Please help, because I think I have everything in place to make a decision one way or another.
Thanks
Mongoo
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t43161.html .... Listen to the sound he posted, thats exactly what my drive does. For what its worth, I used the drive without a problem for a little over a year before it broke.
Now, I am faced with two options. 1) Open the drive up like this guy did, (but I don't understand what to do exactly) or 2) Put the drive in the freezer for like an hour and see if that will fix it.
I have already installed a new hard drive to transfer all of the data as quickly as possible. I aslo bought a DVD burner to back up my other hard drive and make back ups as soon as I can of my lost data, thats if I can get it spinning for a little bit.
What do you think I should try first, which is the safest option I mean without making things worse? I have never opened up a drive before and don't even know what tools I would need for the operation. The screws are star shaped not your regular philips or strait edge.
Please help, because I think I have everything in place to make a decision one way or another.
Thanks
Mongoo