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A few days ago my 2TB seagate expansion desk hardrive started to make a grinding and beeping noise. so i moved everything off it and did a full format hoping that the problem is bad sectors, but this hardrive has very sensitive ports and i kept accidentally bumping them during the format. the first time the drive was fine and i restarted the format bu the second time my computer wouldn't recognise the drive. everytime i plugged in the hardrive it would make the sound of it being plugged in then a minute later it would play the sound of it being unplugged when it wasn't. i have checked device manager but it isnt there and i have tried to partition it in disk managment but it isn't there.
 
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As i said, if there no connection issue the drive could be dead. If there is something very important...
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i cant see it in the bios but i cant see my other good external drive in the bios either
 
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Yes, i think you have to configure the boot order from boot menu to see other drives. Most probably you just see only the drive from which you are booting
 
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So your original post assumes that is a connection issue? What kind of bumps and how? As you describe it i tend to believe you had a near death hdd, that died under stress while formatting. Grinding noises indicate that parts of the hardware, for example the bearings or spindle motor, are failing
 
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i sit my harddrives on a shelf near my knees so i accidentally hit it and the case my hardrive has has very bad ports, they are very sensitive i usually have to wiggle the cables around so the drive will turn on.
Edit: i just plugged the hardrive into an internal cable and still got nothing in the bios and in the devices screen


 
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Please consider completely re-arranging the cabling and the hard-drive(s) in such ways to completely eliminate the accidental bumping of the equipment any time the computer is on; you are posting the effects without changing the cause.
 
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As i said, if there no connection issue the drive could be dead. If there is something very important you want to recover there is a way to do but it comes with a price.
 
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yea i have given up on it. as a precaution i did get everything off it when it started making the noise. but i guess i have to get a new hard drive now
 
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Sadly, hearing noises is the last sign of death and it may be too late. Bad sectors, corrupt data or blue screens when it is a bootable drive are earlier signs that can warn you. Regards
 
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