Sounds more like it has failed . . It could be the drive itself or just the enclosure circuitry. You can open it up and take the drive out to attach internal to a pc to find out
If your drive is powered from a USB 2.0 port, then try a USB Y-cable.
A standard USB port is current limited to 500mA. A Seagate ST9500325AS drive, for example, requires about 850mA during spinup, and about 400mA thereafter. A Y-cable is therefore sometimes necessary to pick up power from two USB ports.
Otherwise, beeping is often a symptom of a stiction fault (heads stuck to platters), or a seized spindle motor. This can happen if you drop or bump your drive.
How do I take my drive apart? I need full details and also how to get the data out and into my windows 7 computer, oh help, you techie's are so smart. This was my first encounter with the external drive, otherwise, dont know much. please and thanks
Once you have the drive out, you can attach it as a slave to a working pc to see if you can salvage the files. If you can, then you know that the enclosure has failed . . if you cannot access the files, then the drive has failed
Re: E drive I got the back off with a knife, has no screws
inside I am stumped of course, will wait for instructions from you.
I see the green board, some wires, the wires are plugged into the inside big piece. the rest of the wires are loose with a with a little white thingie holding them together, red, black and green wires. they are as long as the box they are in. There is also a silver round part at one end close to the green board, I assume the green board is what is called Mother Board. The round silver, is that the hard drive? it has some numbers on it, 61020EN P120 stamped on it, and has more numbers to the top 1103611215595F and is about the size of a loonie or tooney or silver dollar.
I will watch the movie again and see if I can figure the rest out. My external drive is less than l0 years old, I watched a video on how to get the case apart as I used a knife.
next please
Tanis --- I worked with computers for quite a long time but never attempted something like this, please and thanks again for offering to help me.
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