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Foxhunter   10-12-2009 at 04:58:09 PM

My Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB disk (mounted in external box) has stopped spinning and says click-click-click. No falling or physical harm.

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r_manic   10-13-2009 at 09:17:36 AM
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A hard disk failure unfortunately. Were you able to back up the data?

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zipzoomflyhigh   10-13-2009 at 06:16:30 PM
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That's great...so what's the question?

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JackNaylorPE   10-14-2009 at 02:16:13 AM
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Clicking is a bad thing....since it's 2 versions back, it's kinda old but as I recall those had a 5 year warranty.

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godbrother   10-14-2009 at 04:29:09 AM
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Aww, this happen to me once. It first stopped reading, then it completly stopped. No life what so ever. I left it laying around for a while and I came across it again... I was going to bin it as it was a waste of space, but I thought the hell with it, let me try it one last time and Walla!! it just started to work again.

I have no clue to how it happen... This also happen to one of my Sata hard disks that blew out during a thunder storm... Again, a few months later I tried it and till today I'm still useing it :)

As I said, I have no clue to how they just... worked again. But I guess its worth leaving it around for a while before scrapping it.

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Foxhunter   10-16-2009 at 06:27:53 PM
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Thank you all. I really appreciate all your efforts to help. The solution came when I dismounted the disk from the LaCie external tray and connected it directly to a PSU 5/12 V power supply. Appearently the error was in the LaCie electronics and not in the Barracuda disk. It spins and work great w/o any noise at all. All date saved and stored elsewhere. Case closed.

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Foxhunter   10-16-2009 at 06:31:01 PM
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r_manic wrote :

A hard disk failure unfortunately. Were you able to back up the data?


Did you read my message? I was not able to make the disk spin at all - so how should I be able to back up data ?

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Foxhunter   10-16-2009 at 06:33:18 PM
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How do I close a thread ?

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