Drive Plays Tones

bash · Post by **bash** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:10 pm

Maxtor DiamondPlus9 ATA drive won't spin up and makes a few little song-like tones followed by a nasty sort of mechanical sound, then repeats this sequence several times before going quiet. This is not my boot drive but the system hangs at the BIOS screen if the drive is plugged in. The noises and such happen even if only the power is connected (no ribbon) and I enable power to the system. Dead drive? Anything I can do to try to revive it? Any data recovery services folks would recommend? Thanks for any help.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:24 pm

Dead for sure.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:03 am

It's completely toast.

bash · Post by **bash** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:10 am

Yep, dead. Found a thread through google that goes a little more in depth about it's inability to spin up and the error tones. They recommend tapping and even chilling it in the freezer. Tapping didn't help--nor banging--so I opened it up and tried to jumpstart the platter with a pen. No luck. It's keeping the ice cream company for a few hours. Lots of old stuff on that drive *sniff* that's gone forever. Next system gets RAID.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:36 am

Heh, my friend's old IBM Deskstar drive made that noise. Comparable to Pac Man.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:17 am

If theres no damage on the platters, you could always take the drive to a data retrieval company. The freezer solution is obviously a temporary one, and the more you use the drive the more data you risk loosing. That mechanical noise you heard could be the heads coming into contact with the platters, which is BAD.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:59 am

Trying to jumpstart the drive by spinning the platters with a pen = bad idea... Breaking the seal and letting dust in is just as good at trashing data as the heads scraping the disk.

bash · Post by **bash** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:38 am

It was hosed anyway. I was curious.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:59 pm

bash wrote:Yep, dead. Found a thread through google that goes a little more in depth about it's inability to spin up and the error tones.

do you have the link to this website? id like to see this

bash · Post by **bash** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:20 pm

The thread commences in 2002 but the complaints keep coming up until the present. Apparently this was sort of a dog series/model. Anyone with a Maxtor DiamondMax9 should take note, especially if it starts intermittently disappearing from File Manager. I should have taken that as a sign. Anyway, no more Maxtors for me.

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t43161.html

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:28 pm

File Manager? What is this, Windows 3.1?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:57 pm

bash wrote:
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t43161.html

reading some of those posts and listening to that mp3 the person recorded, that is some freaky shiznit

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:13 am

that sounds electronic, is there a little speaker on the drive or is that coming out of the PC speaker?

I have never heard anything like that before.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:48 am

It comes from inside then drive. We never took my friend's IBM apart but the beeps didn't sound as cool.

suicide eddie · Post by **suicide eddie** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:49 pm

definately a generated tone.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:14 pm

I like little boys

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:06 pm

Since when did Mob become a spelling master?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:06 pm

Never. He's just a pretentious f[size=0].[/size]uckhead.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:16 pm

DCrazy wrote:Never. He's just a pretentious f[size=0].[/size]uckhead.

x2

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:48 pm

AceCombat; you are in a position unsuitable to x2 that quote.

Buef · Post by **Buef** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:07 pm

No "a" in the entire family of similar words.

Hey Mr.Spellchecker, you need to talk to Mr.Complete-Sentence. Perhaps mama grammer will let you stay up late.

badspeelers youknight!

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:39 pm

Krom wrote:AceCombat; you are in a position unsuitable to x2 that quote.

ohwell, ill x3 it now. TY

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:35 pm

Mobius wrote:One can only assume you mean: DEFINITELY.

No "a" in the entire family of similar words.

Repeat after me:

FINITE
DEFINE
DEFINITE
DEFINED
DEFINITION
DEFINITELY.

See?

Judo know knoffin' bout dem bit werdz!

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:26 am

Wow.

Ace is....

Not very bright.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:03 am

WarAdvocat wrote:Wow.

Ace is....

Not very bright.

x2

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:00 pm

x3

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:00 pm

Hey Bash, I can get your info retrieved for free!
I'll just call up the feds and tell them you have some kiddie pRon on that there drive. They can retrieve anything.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:02 pm

haha!!

does kitty porn qualify for that aswell!!

bash · Post by **bash** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:43 pm

Funny you should say that because one of the things I lost was a home video of the first time my cat ever came into contact with whipped cream and went bonkers for it. The way her eyes popped wide open upon first sniff was straight out of a cartoon. The filename was whipped_pussy.avi.

I always figured if I ever got raided by the feds they would see that filename and have an AHA! moment before actually viewing it.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:04 am

AceCombat wrote:haha!!

does kitty porn qualify for that aswell!!

Sometimes you just make it too easy.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:02 am

bash wrote:Funny you should say that because one of the things I lost was a home video of the first time my cat ever came into contact with whipped cream and went bonkers for it.

LOL.. that would be funny to watch.

and ace, next time you want to post something, instead of clicking the 'submit' button, move the mouse up to the top right and click the 'x' button.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:07 pm

JMEaT wrote:
AceCombat wrote:haha!!

does kitty porn qualify for that aswell!!
Sometimes you just make it too easy.

and sometimes i like to see the responses just for the laughs. so yeah, i make it easy....