New HDD Malfunction Sound?

[jazepso]

If it would happend to my hdd then i will add an ventilation box (forgot that real name it was: air....)

Just kidding

[hylianprincess7]

Two problems. Actually, three. Bad sectors preventing the hard drive from picking up, a head crash, and bad bearings. You're screwed. :\

[TheSporeCrazed]

Might be that the entire hard drive is a bad sector

[rada660]

this kind os sound, is a mix of 2 problem, first its clicking, saying its have sector failure, thus, the reader head cant read what on the actual sector, and its do that each time a malfunctionning sector is detetced, and then secondly, the little buzzing high pitched sound right after the click, its mean a head crash, its does mean teh reader head have "crashed" into the disk or other component ( in this vid me think into the center of disk ) if so, reader head no more work aswell :(

[sourabhja]

hey friend my new 4-5 month old seagate sata hdd starts same sound and hangs the whole system and after some time disk read error occured message displayed !! i tried to use seagate seatool to check the hdd but it shows the long DST failure !!! what should i do plz assist me friends !!!!

[the747videoer]

How is getting hurt so fucking funny?

[Nitelurker1]

I've had a hard drive opened that I opened and after a gentle tap I was able resume backing up critical data off the drive (mainly videos and mp3s). . .In retrospect I should have allowed it to continue operation until it failed again, just to see. However I knew that once opened it was trash, so I dissected it afterward for the heck of it.

[Dallion100]

My hdd makes that sound when it switches off

[THEtechknight]

let me explain a little something to you all.

Opening hard disk drives and even man-handling them WILL NOT HURT THEM if you are CAREFULL and know what you are DOING.

I had a lenovo someone had dropped. the disk would not spin up anymore.

Hitachi travelstar HDD. 250gb. Removed the cover with a T-6 screwdriver, and the head was NOT parked. it was stuck somewhere in the middle of the platter. I moved the head off the platter and back into the park position. Drive powered up and worked fine..

[SINEKT]

Hard disk drives cannot function in normal air. Deal with it ! That's why they have air filters in them and hdd recovery labs require special dust-free enclosures.

[ableite]

@SINEKT

Who said I wanted it to function opened? Where did you get this idea from? Try reading the info below the video before posting troll-talk.

[plasmar1]

@SINEKT that is a partial misconception, check out the data recovery vids on youtube(with Scott Moulton)... hard drives can work in a regular environment(air); yes the dust in the air will help kill em faster but that's not the point... the misunderstanding comes from the way that lots of hard drives are sealed. The way drives are sealed has more to do with keeping pressurization at a point where the read/write heads float in mid air best and less to do with air quality.

[SINEKT]

@plasmar1: Hard drives are not pressurized. The air inside is in direct contact with the outside air through an air duct and air filter, pretty much like in a car's engine. So whatever the atmospheric pressure is, that's the air pressure in the hard drive.

[plasmar1]

@SINEKT by pressurized I don't mean air tight.... example: "I had a drive once (it was old and dying) it would work fine as long as the case was closed, but if you would take the case off it wouldn't read anything." <<< written by mattg889.... the likely reason is that the read/write heads weren't floating properly ect; if you check out the data recovery video's I had mentioned with Scott Moulton its all there....

[TheDJGabizz]

Try replacing the mainboard on the HDD when u hear that sound. It helped me ;)

[blueyonder1000]

You can't fix it unless you swap the reader head and then their is still no guarantee it will work.

[theringfilm1]

its called head crash (on both of them) That's why the head only moves to the middle and not the parking station.

[the731272]

also very soon you might find a very big scratch

[the731272]

i don't think its a malfunction sound i think the platter dent up a little cause the head to make a odd noise when i passes over it. or it might be a click of death

[beccasolovely]

My Seagate was dropped and it is now making this same sound. How did you fix it??

Thanks!

-Rebecca

[ableite]

@beccasolovely If you can access the data backup it. Then buy another. Mine become one stirling engine :p

[Xearo167]

Severe heatstress at first till you did something now it is grinding...

[troshs]

0:28-:040 death twitch

[157amir]

dont disturb it just playing drum and then wtf

[scott93257]

definite head failure...The Hard drive in my DVR was clicking too... making that same exact noise, The DVR was a useless piece of Crap without it

[974xdd]

Seagate 40 or 80 Gb Barracuda - bad sound :(

[974xdd]

Seagate Barracuda 40 or 80 Gb - bad sound :(

[uphill248]

Hi, I have an SATA hard drive (Maxtor) and a second SATA hard drive, but the connection to the motherboard is different from each other. Do I need a converter? Please Help. I would also like to buy a new hard drive (SATA) how would I know if the connection to the motherboard is the same?? Please Help

[PjTheAnimator]

you really fuck with this!i newer seen a problem like this!

[mattg889]

Having the drive open might be causing more of those errors than anything else. I had a drive once (it was old and dying) it would work fine as long as the case was closed, but if you would take the case off it wouldn't read anything. Near as I can tell it was because with the cover off the turbulence isn't under control inside it.

[ableite]

This was happening before. Then I opened to see what was going on inside. It was already damaged.

[mattg889]

I see, sorry, the errors your showing are with the cover off. Still probably doesn't help, I wouldn't have know...

[maxy3515i]

i had the same problem with my seagate 80gb :S

[wdowa94]

HDD bios (firmware) damaged

[bradman5505]

yeah i think its dead!!!!!

[liquidoxygen0]

What model of drive is that? If I'm not mistaken, I think you may have had a head crash next to the spindle where the drive's heads come to momentarily rest when it buzzes. Whether you have or not, it sounds like head damage.

[ableite]

It was one seagate barracuda 80GB

[daza1992]

funny that mines is the exact same model and has just failed miserably i cant even use seatools thingy, brande new used once just to install windows seven, booted up today to be greeted by one big arse noise and then nothing just failure to boot up atall spins up but nothing more =[, yet its older ide drive bro is still running perfectly with xp nearly 4 years of abuse in different systems

[johnnylimb94]

dear hampster ball I might wanna add u should use just windows xp u won't get thoes errors from the mce : microsoft crappy edition it just plane and simply sucks or u could use Linux. it's easy and saves hdd space

[NoelLozano]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[FerralVideo]

Simple answer. Lost low level formatting. As soon as the heads leave Track 0 - Home Location - the drive loses track of where they are, and powers down the head seek linear motor to let the small magnet on the side park it. There's no way to restore this data. Different drives handle loss of low level format differently. This is just one of many. Most simply do "Click of Death", as the drive tries to seek, finds itself off track, and re-homes.

[winfr34k]

I have the same problem, Is there a way to get the drive, not the data, back?

[BarneySaysHi]

That is the sound of a serious headcrash.

[hamsterball27]

my hdd is fine but says everytime i reinstall windows xp mce it says when i turn it on

%systemroot%/system32/hal.dll

missing it wont work but now pc world have put new hdd in it it works what is the matter with hdd

[Watcher3223]

How are you reinstalling Windows?

If you're trying to reinstall over an older installation (repair attempt of a current installation of Windows), that could be the problem. You may have to wipe the drive first and perform a clean installation rather than attempt repair of an existing installation.

Or, use a new hard drive, do a clean install of Windows on it, and then migrate data off your old drive to the Windows installation on the new drive.

[hamsterball27]

im formatting hdd then reinstalling dont worry fixed now :)

[SeanBondWBB]

bad sectors

[InuyashaWindScar1994]

sometimes it depends on how u restore a a computer on me do a factory restore and it will wipe the whole hdd and reinstall everthing that came with it when you bought it

[Rageman1112]

That was hard to read.

[lauris1ok1]

if any dust drops on your hdd info disc you will need to buy new one,cuz it will make scrach. eaven if you will not see that scrach your hdd is just trash...

[winfr34k]

LOL... The HDD spins with 7200RPM, dust will just flow away...

[produKtNZ]

I wish we could see the harddrives' errors at a firmware/internal level!

Like just why must it keep retrying the same read over and over 0:27 - 1:19 ?

You would think with all the brainpower and programming knowledge etc, the hdd manufacturers would program a realisational piece of code into the firmware to detect the fact that for whatever reason it can't move the heads past a certain point, of platter head #2 isn't responding or something -_-

[lazaroanthony]

stick a magnet to that bitch

[Newman12341]

damn mine makes the EXACTLY clicking noise, time to get a new HDD?

[lazaroanthony]

no your a fuckwit, who does that?

you dont know anything about HDDs do you?

your a n00b man, i bet your some fat guy who likes on his own and plays RS.

grow some sack and live with your HDD's problem.

[Newman12341]

says the 40 year old permanent virgin.

[blacksabath66]

my HDD doesn't make a nose....i have vista and wen i start up my computer it stops at Microsoft Corporation someone got help?

[chrischoy9]

I have that once and it claims to be a disk crash

[sassySQ123]

Does it say Microsoft Coroporation with that bar moving then the computer restarts itself and does it again and again?

[shaun717176]

my seagate makes that sound to after a lil fall

[DT170x]

at 1:30 the head of the hard drive is hitting the hard drive. And making the scraping sound.

[pmabres]

its just me or at 1:05 you touch the HDD with your camera??? XD

[Regency500]

You can get the data recovered by using some data recovery techniques, however, you must know what you are doing. If the head continues to skip on the platters, then it will cause physical damage to the drive, rendering it useless. I'm sorry to inform you that even though you can retrieve some data, you will not be able to retrieve it all due to the damage to the drive. Get a new drive, I'd recommend Quantum, Seagate, or IBM. Good luck my friend and I hoped this helped some.

[ableite]

Hi, thanks for the info. But this HDD has gone a long time ago (the disk belongs now to a stirling motor). I could backup my files. There were nothing more I could do with it. I managed to open and see what was happening. Im now with samsungs. I just dont like the 2yr warranty. Beside that, I dont have anything to complain with them. The one on the video is a seagate barracuda 80GB. I have one western digital that seems to have the same problem.

[scott93257]

@ableite

Western Digitals are known to have this type of failure at a higher rate than Seagate or Hitachi...I just recently installed a Hitachi Desk star 1TB...The 160 GB Barracuda drive that it originally had is now the secondary drive...Plus two external hard drives... 1 is a500 GB Maxtor one Touch 4 (which is seagate now) and the other is an original Seagate 250 GB one touch.. It's always been either Hitachi or Seagate with me... WD's fail A LOT.

[Regency500]

Hello, this problem happened to my Western Digital 20GB HDD. The sound is the magnetic head gliding across the platters, this is a sign that the sector is damaged. It also maybe a logic board error, however, the second noise that occurred was the head actually touching the platters, this might have caused physical damage to the drive. The head is supposed to be gliding on a very tiny pocket of air, the drive was damaged and caused the head to somehow decend and touch the platters.

[nbates66]

yes... generally opening a hard drive killes it, but i assume this was already dead before you pulled the cover off? :P

[ableite]

yes. This sound was happening before opening it. And the harddrive had problem acessing files. ^^

[daand12]

My seagate 250GB makes the same sounds after

fall

[intelinside1990]

Mmmh, HDD MUSTN'T BE OPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you open a HDD, you kill it!

Weird noise :O

[savarg]

heart beat monitor =D !!!

talk about self testing lol

[cheetawolf]

lol tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep tick-peep :P

[dmcemmet]

i had the same problem with my veeeeery old WD Caviar. Even the same sounds.

[Regency500]

Bad sector on the platter, if the HDD was damaged or exposed to a magnet or water, then it could cause damage to the platter. This causes a bad sector, therefore the data on that specific sector is lost.

[dwkSC17]

i have the same problem but its spread over about 7 seconds apart but over the past 2 days has been getting more frequent. it also freezes the comp for about 2 seconds after beeping. the only program i have not been able to run is WoW... this is weird. think i should invest in a new drive? i need some help!

[ableite]

ASAP. Better not to lose files!

[c05m11n]

do you used it for polishing metal or somethin' cus it sounds like one

[steve30avs]

my seagate made that sound 2. turns out it was my power supply. ever since i got a new power supply the hard drive has been workin great

[walkdru]

shit gt that in my laptop with hp

hp suck changed the hdd twice

[tabletka666]

damn im havin same problem. did u find a solution in the end??? btw if u upen up hdd, thats it... u cant out it back together coz now dust particles will be inside which will result in microscopic scratches on the disks...

[ableite]

Nope. Well, at least I found a program that could help after opening it. So for me, no way to recover it (its now a part of a stirling motor anyway). Backup all files you can and try the program "MHDD 4.6" It remake the disk magnetic surface.

[aiasthegreat1]

I have had the same sound(up until 1:20 min) in my Seagate 'cuda until it flatlined. I had it replaced by Seagate with a refurb and now that one is doing the same sound. WTH?!?! Anyone have any ideas? Bad mobo or bad luck?

[ableite]

Well, considering it was refurbished, you have got one with same problem. I am now buying samsungs. I just dont like the warranty: 2yrs. While Seagate, WD and maxtor are 5yrs.

[Webcouncil]

Smash it!!

[alexchrisccc]

i have a western digital that sounds just like that.

[Ravenpulse]

headcrash

[WroLeader]

HDD's must not be opened... That can ruin it even more.

[CountMonaco]

wtf is this, data recovery from hell?

[saber53]

I have the same piging noise but mines faster.....

It started making that sound and now i have this sing

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.....

[keyondmorris]

saber53 i have that same prob i was gonna reinstall windows until now whenever i turn the computer on it clicks and the whole thing shuts down after 5-10 seconds

[WargMX]

I had a harddrive that sounded like this...I turned it off and then on again, an the the sound was gone?! well anyway, next day the harddrive died. It was bad sectors, btw

[ableite]

I agree with you. I think that it was bad sectors too. I tried fixing it with HDD Regenarator but to solution. After i realized that i could try MVHDD 4.2, i think thats the name. It is from the same creator of Hdd regenerator

[2fast4uspartan]

dont waste time on that drive. Return it and buy a Western Digital Caviar hdd. They are the best in buiseness. Seagate is also great but my Seagate Barracuda 80gb keeps screwing up after 3 years of service. They claimed it would last at the lest 5 years. Mine should have and i kept it cool and under great condition. Apart from running 6 hours a day.

[ableite]

LOL! One Western Digital has replaced it and has broken too. Now im Open to Samsung's.

[2fast4uspartan]

no, dont go samsung, it sucks. Go for sony drives or even maxtor. Samsung has no reliability for their hdds

[ableite]

I cant say nothing about sony, but if you search for maxtor here in youtube youll see A LOT of broken harddrives =\

[2fast4uspartan]

go for sony than, you cant say anything and from what i can say, it is a great company for hardware. The only sony product that is not reliable is their sony VAIO laptops which have heat issues that hopefully will be solved.

[QuillOmega0]

Well now that you opened the drive, it's gone. Buy a new one.

[ableite]

LOL! Its gone since a long time ago. My brother has used it to make a stirling motor. This is just for learning, and when it happens again, to identify or probably having a solution to the problem.

[Bandicoot803]

That sounds like the MBR information got screwed up. The controller is looking for it, but can't find it anywhere. My suggestion: Get a new HDD.

[ableite]

The MBR is written in every HD format. Formatting it didnt solve the problem.

[gnutelliums]

It had head damage.

[manahhh]

i had this problem too i think that sound was caused by cable malfunction ide or power cable

check this

[ableite]

i had changed both of them and the problem wasnt solved...

[Incorporat3d]

Thats not a new sound, they always sound like this, maybe you should use Google next time.

Doesn't happen very often with Seagate drives tho.

2.5 Drives sound a bit different tho....

If you run your HDD 24/7 you should think about using a SV35 drive as they are designed for this.

[ableite]

find it and show me.... ¬¬'

[ableite]

Hard to find it on google, huh?!

[farhankk360]

Man i got the same Prob man can u plz help with this.... what the Hell is this....

[wootness3000]

Spinny AND Shinny! My favorite!

[DaiLafing]

I was thinking lol if he dropped the camera on to it...And secconds later i hear the grid of SLR & HDD Meet...Ah the beauty..!

lol

Oh, btw...i have had this noise b4 with a hdd...just means its failed

[ableite]

"secconds later i hear the grid of SLR & HDD Meet"

Lol, yes I did. But luckly i was using the lenses protection. Otherwise I would have some marks on the camera case.

[Thunderbolt1003Fan]

is that a sata 160gb seagate?

[ableite]

Its an Barracuda 7200.7 80GB Model: ST380013AS

[Thunderbolt1003Fan]

i had no bad luck with seagate before, but it should not do that! i have 34 seagates in lots of computers running 24/7 and they work great! sorry about the hard drive that died! hope you got your data off! :)

[ableite]

The strange thing is that i bought other HDD, a Western Digital one, and with 1yr and 3 months later it showed the same sound. I backuped my files and formmated it. Until now its not making that sound. Im thinking that this problem is happening because of my Motherboard. Its a Intel D865PERL. Since i bought this board I think it has a defect: When I turn on the stabilizator the pc automatically turns on, I dont need to press the power button on the CPU.

[Thunderbolt1003Fan]

i would get your motherboard test somehow. because it sounds like that could be the cause.

[Thunderbolt1003Fan]

yep it is failed