Hard drive wont spin up

Finster4 · 31-01-2008

I have a Seagate 500 gig hard drive mounted in an external enclosure. A few months back I had to reformat my C drive and reinstall windows. I used the seagate as a back up before formatting. I moved most of my pics and music back but left everything else when the drive died on me.
After checking all the cables I pulled the drive out and mounted it in the pc slave driven off the master, still doest spin up. Windows wont detect it, nor will bios.
All I get is a low pitched buzzing noise followed by a higher pitched beeping noise for about 30 sec. till it stops all together. I tried all the tricks I know of to get it spinning again but none have worked.
First did the freezer thing, didnt help.
Someone told me to try gripping the drive like a frisby and twisting it in a throwing type motion hard enough to free the head from the platter to get it spinning. This didnt help either.
I pulled off the pcb board and noticed a very small burn/scorch mark on one of the contacts So I picked up a new drive same model# and firmware as the old one. Swaped out the Pcb's and still no luck.
So just for giggles I dicided to put the "burnt" pcb board into the new drive and remounted it in the external encloser and it spun right up, windows detected it, and I was able to partition and format it. So the board was fine to begin with. This leaves me with 2 possibilities that I know of:
1. the motors bad and im screwed,
2. the head stuck to the platter
So my question is where do i go from here? I dont want to lose the data still on it. Its a bunch of movies, programs i dont have back ups for, and last years taxes. Nothing worth the cost of having it recovered professionaly. All of it can be replaced but not without a lot of headache. And im shying away from actually opening up the drive, as its only 6 months old and still under warrenty. I dont want to let seagate off that easy, they owe me a new drive. Its the principle of the thing.
Anyway, am I missing anything? Does anyone know of anything I havent tried yet?
Sorry if this was long winded but I didnt want to leave anything out.

*_chef_* · 31-01-2008

Maybe you need to replace the power connector on the hdd.

*THE C.* · 31-01-2008

Welcome to the forum...Replace the drive under your warranty is your best bet.

Finster4 · 31-01-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by _chef_

Maybe you need to replace the power connector on the hdd.

The power connector on this drive is right on the pcb board, so it was replaced when I swaped the boards out from the new drive.

I'll probably play with it for a few more days, if I cant get it to spin up long enough to get my data back I guess I'll just cut my loses and send it in.

Thanks for the responses.

*_chef_* · 31-01-2008

OK, then RMA time.

31-01-2008	#1
Finster4 New on Forum Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2	Hard drive wont spin up I have a Seagate 500 gig hard drive mounted in an external enclosure. A few months back I had to reformat my C drive and reinstall windows. I used the seagate as a back up before formatting. I moved most of my pics and music back but left everything else when the drive died on me. After checking all the cables I pulled the drive out and mounted it in the pc slave driven off the master, still doest spin up. Windows wont detect it, nor will bios. All I get is a low pitched buzzing noise followed by a higher pitched beeping noise for about 30 sec. till it stops all together. I tried all the tricks I know of to get it spinning again but none have worked. First did the freezer thing, didnt help. Someone told me to try gripping the drive like a frisby and twisting it in a throwing type motion hard enough to free the head from the platter to get it spinning. This didnt help either. I pulled off the pcb board and noticed a very small burn/scorch mark on one of the contacts So I picked up a new drive same model# and firmware as the old one. Swaped out the Pcb's and still no luck. So just for giggles I dicided to put the "burnt" pcb board into the new drive and remounted it in the external encloser and it spun right up, windows detected it, and I was able to partition and format it. So the board was fine to begin with. This leaves me with 2 possibilities that I know of: 1. the motors bad and im screwed, 2. the head stuck to the platter So my question is where do i go from here? I dont want to lose the data still on it. Its a bunch of movies, programs i dont have back ups for, and last years taxes. Nothing worth the cost of having it recovered professionaly. All of it can be replaced but not without a lot of headache. And im shying away from actually opening up the drive, as its only 6 months old and still under warrenty. I dont want to let seagate off that easy, they owe me a new drive. Its the principle of the thing. Anyway, am I missing anything? Does anyone know of anything I havent tried yet? Sorry if this was long winded but I didnt want to leave anything out.

31-01-2008	#2
_chef_ MyCE Resident Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: @FX labs .de ...playing LLAMATRON :-] Posts: 30,613	Re: Hard drive wont spin up Maybe you need to replace the power connector on the hdd. __________________ Enable DMA with micrAp$0ft Enable DMA free at your will busTRACE => Upper/Lower Filters Util DevCon *HOW TO ... Delete the Upper & Lower Filters!* If you expect help then please use the powerful SEARCH. Try ThreatFire I am looking for DVD-R for Authoring & HD DVD media. Please PM me if you can help me. Vamos Tribbles! V-a-m-o-s!!

31-01-2008	#3
THE C. MyCE Resident Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,515	Re: Hard drive wont spin up Welcome to the forum...Replace the drive under your warranty is your best bet. __________________ Dell 17R, Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Intel i5 Core (460M), Western Digtial 750GB (Scorpio Black) H.D., 8GB RAM (PC10700), 900p LED HD Display (1600x900) display, 1GB Nvidia Card, Hitachi GBW-10N 6x BD/CD/DVD-RW, SRS Premium Sound System! PC#2: Dell Inspiron 1525 Notebook, OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Intel Core 2 Duo T5450, 4GB (PC5300) RAM, 256MB ATI Video Card, 640GB Western Digital HD, PBDS DVD-+RW. Other Equipment: 1 Pioneer DVR-112D External Drive, 4 External Pioneer DVR-116D Drives, 1 CopyStar Duplicator With ASUS DVDE616A3 DVDRomDrive and 2 Pioneer DVR-116D mounted in it, Mapower enclosure with 2 1TB Western Digital H.D., Mapower enclosure with 2 750GB Seagate HD's, 1 Lacie 2TB 2Big Quadra unit, 8TB MediaSonic ProBox, 2 2TB Western Digital Element drives for backup, and Logitech Pro speaker system!

31-01-2008	#5
_chef_ MyCE Resident Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: @FX labs .de ...playing LLAMATRON :-] Posts: 30,613	Re: Hard drive wont spin up OK, then RMA time. __________________ Enable DMA with micrAp$0ft Enable DMA free at your will busTRACE => Upper/Lower Filters Util DevCon *HOW TO ... Delete the Upper & Lower Filters!* If you expect help then please use the powerful SEARCH. Try ThreatFire I am looking for DVD-R for Authoring & HD DVD media. Please PM me if you can help me. Vamos Tribbles! V-a-m-o-s!!

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