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Post #574267

Author
asterisk8
Parent topic
Dropped hard drive
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Date created
15-Apr-2012, 3:56 PM

none,

Thanks for the reply.

I had Winamp playing at the time, but the volume was down because I was on the phone, so I don't know what was playing at that precise moment, it's possible it was a song on my laptop I hadn't backed up to the drive yet. 

What I heard when I picked up the drive off the floor was a slow clicking noise like something was stuck. I turned the drive off, unplugged the power and eSATA cables. I open the case to make sure nothing had come loose, but everything in the enclosure looked fine. I plugged it back in, this time connected through USB. My computer recognized that a USB drive had been plugged in, I heard a couple clicks from the drive, could feel the drive spinning when I touched the case, and once in awhile it would make that noise old HDDs make when they're trying to read data. My laptop would not pick up the drive.

I have the drive in the freezer right now. I don't know what else to do.