Strange Seagate Problem

gttdi · 01-08-2009, 10:41 AM

I'm having some trouble with my Seagate slave hard drive.

I turned on the PC this morning and the hard drive made some high pitched squeal noises intermittently and the BOIS reported a hard disk error.

The hard drive is now not in My Computer but still shows in device manager and BIOS. I've checked the drive and it spins up OK, and has now stopped making the funny noise.

What's the chances of me getting my data from this drive and how should I go about it? Thanks

**raptor_pa** · 01-08-2009, 10:52 AM

If the data is important, from the sounds of it, there could be some head damage, the squeal could well have been the heads tearing up the platters. Best bet at this point if the data is critical is to get the drive into the hands of a professional data recovery company who has a clean room. This will probably require a head stack swap. Depending on the model and capacity of the drive it will probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of $1000 at the low end to $2300 at the top end.

01-08-2009, 10:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
gttdi Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista	Strange Seagate Problem I'm having some trouble with my Seagate slave hard drive. I turned on the PC this morning and the hard drive made some high pitched squeal noises intermittently and the BOIS reported a hard disk error. The hard drive is now not in My Computer but still shows in device manager and BIOS. I've checked the drive and it spins up OK, and has now stopped making the funny noise. What's the chances of me getting my data from this drive and how should I go about it? Thanks

01-08-2009, 10:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,853 OS: XP	Re: Strange Seagate Problem If the data is important, from the sounds of it, there could be some head damage, the squeal could well have been the heads tearing up the platters. Best bet at this point if the data is critical is to get the drive into the hands of a professional data recovery company who has a clean room. This will probably require a head stack swap. Depending on the model and capacity of the drive it will probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of $1000 at the low end to $2300 at the top end. __________________