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Uploaded by on May 15, 2008

I found this old drive laying around and figured there might be some data on it. I connected it to try and read it but it made very odd sounds that I've never heard a drive make before. I'm looking to see if anyone out there recognizes the sounds and can let me know what they mean.

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  • Me ET - You human. Me hungry. PIEPIEP ;)

  • Sounds like the heads have crashed...your hard drive is useless if this is the case. You have no choice but too dispose of it because the heads have made contact with the platters and have scratched the surface. It is history.

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  • it's going to self destruction after reading the message

  • @desktopgeek98 Hahah, no idea.. I just get nostalgic when I hear the sound. But there wasn't anything wrong with my computer, it was just an older version.

  • Sounds like the sound of a shattered platter! I had this problem when I tried to boot up a computer that had been DROPPED. A desktop! Ouch.

  • @TheToeBrand How many times do you hear the beep? I think that's just the computer saying that everything's normal. Let me know.

  • @KaidoFujimi and musical

  • It's saying: Data Wiping, Data Wiping, FUCK YOU!

    Maxtor's are musical but totally not reliable, use at your own risk, esp. if you actually use these hunks of shit to backup! 

  • thumbs up if you have the same USB IDE/SATA adaptor

  • lol i got a hard drive about 10 years older then that one that actually works.... (about 43Mb)

  • epic hard drive

  • The quiet peip peip sounds at first is the hard drive relizinng that the platters are not moving at the proper speed so tries to increase speed to get them back up, after realizing that they still wont work, it shuts down power to the spindle motor. After a few tries, the hard drive goes thru a stuck head routine, aka that loud sound. Its where the voice coil tries to move from track 0 to max track and back in a effort to unstick the heads. Then it tries to restart the platters.

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