Hard drive won't boot up, faint clicking sound 1

[bobbybrady456]

My Seagate external hard drive turns on and I hear the sound from the computer that it's hooked up but the letter drive isn't on "My Computer". If I put my ear up to the Seagate drive I hear a clicking sound. Is there any way to save the drive. I don't have all the files backed up. I read that you can put it in a freezer for fifteen minutes but hesitant to do that of course. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[goombawaho]

What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean the broken one you've been talking about? No, it be broke! End of story.
In general or a new one?? A USB external hard drive can't be plugged in internally as there is no internal usb female port, unless you have an add-on adapter with an internal port.

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[rclarke250]

If removed from the goflex case, it should be a standard sata drive inside. And this is just as a test to see if the problem lies with the sata to usb circuitry, if it works, get the data off of it, then test it with diags, if it passes diags, either by another goflex on ebay to use it's case with your drive, or buy a standard sata to usb enclosure for the size drive you have, and install it in that. Goombawaho they actually make a cable that uses the internal USB header and on the other end has a USB B connector, I have used them on USB tape drives, mounted internally in a server.Link. And I use thisto run the internal display on my HTPC computers.

 

[edfair]

Powering it without the USB cable probably would answer the question. Only other issue could be the power.

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[goombawaho]

I thought we were past testing........................

I knew about those cables, but they seem kind of rigged - putting an external drive inside with no mounting. Meh, I'm sure it works, but not "elegant".

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Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[rclarke250]

No, it's an internal tape drive, just has a funky USB connector. I say tape drive, but it's an RDX drive, that actually uses hard drives in a cartridge format, and uses tape backup software. like this. No idea why they put the port on it they did, but it is an internal drive setup with standard mounting holes.