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JamesonTB
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_ 		9. September 2010 @ 23:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hello. I have a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 320 Gigabyte External Hard Drive that has started beeping, making this alarm-like sound. I am not sure if it is actual beeping or something inside the drive trying to physically read but won't. I accidentally dropped it and that is when it started making that sound. But now I cannot even hook it up via USB anymore because when my dad took the external casing off and tried to hook it up to a computer via internal SATA cables, the USB Connector broke. So now my only option is to hook it up inside of my laptop like an actual internal hard drive. But there is another problem. When I dropped it and it started making that beeping noise, it somehow got unformatted with no file system whatsoever and plus it says that it has 0 bytes; not even as free or used space but as in its drive capacity. And the reason I even know that much is because I got a Hackintosh boot disc and the computer boots completely from the disc. So when I went to Disk Utility and tried to partition it it would not let me cause the drive was too small cause it had a zero byte capacity. But what I want to do is format it as Windows NTFS but like I said I cannot even do that because the Windows boot disc won't recognize the hard drive so there is nothing to write to. Is there any way to reformat it and/or give it back its 320 Gigabyte capacity so I can write to it?
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ddp
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_ 		10. September 2010 @ 00:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
see if still under warranty but other then that you now have a paperweight that looks & feels like a hard drive but isn't.
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JamesonTB
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_ 		10. September 2010 @ 13:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
 see if still under warranty but other then that you now have a paperweight that looks & feels like a hard drive but isn't.
Oh... So there is no way to fix it? Well that sucks now doesn't it. Ok thank you.
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sammorris
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_ 		13. September 2010 @ 09:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Unfortunately the message here is don't drop hard drives. When running, HDDs are very fragile.
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