Hard drive not as noisy as it used to be.

escotric · 01-25-2009, 04:51 PM

Hey TSF!

I had a 160 gig Seagate SATA Hard drive that I used a while back on my desktop in the year 2003. It was a noisy guy. Fast but a bit noisy. Then I managed to swoop on a laptop so I used it ever since.

Couple of days ago I then managed to swoop

on a AMD quad Opteron motherboard and two CPU's and 9600GT 512 graph and fans and whatnot ram baddabing.

I then went back to my seagate to add on to my computer bunch and connected the power sata cord and sata cable to my motherboard and no sound. Hard drive doesnt spin. Worried. (dead?)

So is my hard drive dead? What are some ways to make it dead? possible to turn it to undead. helperz!

**raptor_pa** · 01-25-2009, 05:19 PM

Well not too many ways to make it undead.... you could check the PCB if you had another matching drive and see if the motor will spin. If it does spin, it still may not come up, you would have to swap the firmware chip from the fialed board to the new board, or have someone with a PC3000 or Salvation Disk Doctor copy the firmware code from teh old board to the new. The other failure potential if not spinning is a seized spindle motor, no recovery from that at home, would require disassembling the drive, and transplanting the platters into a donor drive, then putting the old PCB onto the donor drive.
OK Now that the bad news is out of the way, let's try to narrow it down a bit....
It sounds like you tried to fire the drive in the new Mobo, perhaps try it in the old box and see if it spins up there.... if it is still available. Verify the cables you are using, try another SATA port and other power connector.

01-25-2009, 04:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
escotric Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Windows 7	Hard drive not as noisy as it used to be. Hey TSF! I had a 160 gig Seagate SATA Hard drive that I used a while back on my desktop in the year 2003. It was a noisy guy. Fast but a bit noisy. Then I managed to swoop on a laptop so I used it ever since. Couple of days ago I then managed to swoop on a AMD quad Opteron motherboard and two CPU's and 9600GT 512 graph and fans and whatnot ram baddabing. I then went back to my seagate to add on to my computer bunch and connected the power sata cord and sata cable to my motherboard and no sound. Hard drive doesnt spin. Worried. (dead?) So is my hard drive dead? What are some ways to make it dead? possible to turn it to undead. helperz!

01-25-2009, 05:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,801 OS: XP	Re: Hard drive not as noisy as it used to be. Well not too many ways to make it undead.... you could check the PCB if you had another matching drive and see if the motor will spin. If it does spin, it still may not come up, you would have to swap the firmware chip from the fialed board to the new board, or have someone with a PC3000 or Salvation Disk Doctor copy the firmware code from teh old board to the new. The other failure potential if not spinning is a seized spindle motor, no recovery from that at home, would require disassembling the drive, and transplanting the platters into a donor drive, then putting the old PCB onto the donor drive. OK Now that the bad news is out of the way, let's try to narrow it down a bit.... It sounds like you tried to fire the drive in the new Mobo, perhaps try it in the old box and see if it spins up there.... if it is still available. Verify the cables you are using, try another SATA port and other power connector. __________________