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External Seagate emitting a high pitch screech/squeal
Any noises like this are due to mechanical problems. get your data off fast as this will either seize up, (bearings), or sustain a head crash, (if it hasn't already).- PalmerData
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Drive Erasing
Wahnula is exactly right. Fdisk simply removes the Master File Table so the sectors with data become 'unallocated'. The data is still there of course, and needs to be overwritten if you don't want it to be recoverable. Recovering from a high-level format like this is really easy. People in...- PalmerData
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
