Hard Drive Troubles

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today when i started up my machine, it displayed all the bios information
then went black. i checked all connections and everything was fine. I
suspected my harddrive, which is serial ata, was causing it. i really
coundnt test it on another pc in my house since im th only one with SATA
support. An older IDE harddrive worked fine.

I then removed the SATA HD from my case and held it on my hands. As a
turned the my pc on, the harddrive began to spin, but after 10 seconds, it
made a beeping noise and stopped.

Anyone no a solution...i cant send it back becasue i bought it OEM

Its a Western Digital WD800
80 gigs
SATA

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i got the data lifeguard tools, but i cant run, properly because it doesnt
load SATA drivers. im waiting for a response from WD

"GHalleck" wrote:

>
> Matt wrote:
> > today when i started up my machine, it displayed all the bios information
> > then went black. i checked all connections and everything was fine. I
> > suspected my harddrive, which is serial ata, was causing it. i really
> > coundnt test it on another pc in my house since im th only one with SATA
> > support. An older IDE harddrive worked fine.
> >
> > I then removed the SATA HD from my case and held it on my hands. As a
> > turned the my pc on, the harddrive began to spin, but after 10 seconds, it
> > made a beeping noise and stopped.
> >
> > Anyone no a solution...i cant send it back becasue i bought it OEM
> >
> > Its a Western Digital WD800
> > 80 gigs
> > SATA
>
>
> Bad hard drive. Contact Western Digital if the OEM will not
> accept the return (unless the HD has already exceeded WDC's
> warranty time limit). To save the data, install a slave drive
> and the next time the drive starts, keep it running as long
> as possible and offload important data, files, etc.
>
>