Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

[Eagle101]

hey everyone

I need some help, my stupid brother tripped over my hard drive wire and it fell, wasn't very high too it was at knee length. I cant believe how stupid he is because he basically lives in my room with the comp and PS3 being in there so he knows where ever wire and extension is.

Anways on topic i hooked the hard drive back in and now its giving me some funny noise like a warning sound and then stop, it sounds as if the disc inside is spinning and scratching at the same time. What can i do is this going to be reparable at all?

[AlecJ32]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

You won't be able to repair the drive, if it's physically damaged. I'd be checking the warranty, if I were you.

[Eagle101]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

Cant find the warranty, as well as i think that the internal components of the hard drive might have fallen off or are loose. I took it to a PC workshop today hopefully i will get an answer by tomorrow

[=98=]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

Is it actually working?

Is there a fan in the HD enclosure?

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

i think we should set up an Eagle help sticky xD you donthave the best of luck with you computer fella my heart goes out to u :p

If it doesnt turn out to be a cooling fan or something like that then im afraid your pretty much out of luck. You can get them repaired but its very very expensive as it requires a clean static free workshop. My lecturer told me of a time he managed to recover most of the contents of a students hard drive by transferring the actual disk into a donor drive but it would ruin both drives and the effort it would take is hardly worth it unless the data is vital.... even then it might not work.

Tell your bro to smash his piggy bank :p

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

drive noise = backup and buy new if you can't obtain warranty service.

sorry...

[Eagle101]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

You all should see my new thread, this week is not going well at all, adding to that i got a driving test today lets just hope i dont crash the car.

[[USAC]S|Cpl.TinFoil]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

There's a rule to maintaining HDDs: if it grinds, it's done. There are some standardized HDD tests on the (internal drive) manufacturers' websites, I think, so run those to make sure there aren't any errors; if you report the errors to customer support during your drive's warranty period, they immediately authorize a replacement to be sent.

Now if other companies had such quick responses...

[Eagle101]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

^ thanks dude.

The techsop i went to could not fix it, the comps dont detect it. I found the warrant but its expired. I bought a new My Book 1TB to replace my fallen and beloved IOmega.

[=98=]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

Look after it this time!

[TheEn|gma]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

Seeing all your threads makes me realise the issues I have aren't all that bad :)

[Mo0by]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

Alas you will need to download new porn.

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

And clean up your cables and stop blaming your brother for your laziness.

You blame your brother when you get caught with hax, not when they trip over your mess.

Crunch

[Eagle101]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

Lol @ Mooby and En1gma

Crunch it was my brother honest! :p mebeh i blame myself later on when another thing breaks :p

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: Help! Ext HDD fell and now gives me funny noises

They have just recieved about 10 of the 1TB Mybooks in the editting suite at uni to use as scratch disks/temp storage so i would guess its a pretty good call there :)

My 320MB one recently broke after a year which was a bit dissapointing but it took a bit of a beating with being transported about a lot so its my own fault. Hard drive inside it is still ok though so i havent lost a great deal.