Seagate 2TB

Russell2014 · 19 May 2014 at 00:01

Hi people

I came to use my external hard drive tday and it wouldn't power up I have tried 2 cables n data cables but I can hear a fain clicking from the drive any ideas help please, I don't want to lose my data?

From Russell

andy_mk3 · 19 May 2014 at 00:03

It's possible that something has failed on the board that connects between the drive and the USB/power ports. I had this on an old Maxtor external drive (Seagate drive inside). Connected the drive up to a PC and it was perfect.

Russell2014 · 19 May 2014 at 00:05

I tried to connect it to the pc and it won't lite up or anything and tried plugging into my blu ray player as a external drive nothing.

andy_mk3 · 19 May 2014 at 00:06

I meant open it up and plug it directly into the PC, it will most likely be a standard SATA drive.

wazza300 · 19 May 2014 at 00:06

he means take it out of the caddy and hook it up inside your pc with a sata cable and sata power cable from psu

Russell2014 · 19 May 2014 at 00:11

Ohh do u need any special tools to Open the case to get to the hard drive and I'm assuming the clicking noise isn't good.

wazza300 · 19 May 2014 at 00:32

should be screwed together? idk ive never owned one tbh,but id certainly test it hooked up internally to the pc

Russell2014 · 19 May 2014 at 17:06

Well I connected to the pc and still no joy and it was still doing a faint contiuess beep
Any ideas?

andy_mk3 · 19 May 2014 at 18:15

So it's out of the caddy and directly connected to the pc with a sata and power cable yeah?

If so sounds like the drive is dead unfortunately

Russell2014 · 19 May 2014 at 18:40

Yeah out of caddy and in my case with power n sata cable and no joy

andy_mk3 · 19 May 2014 at 21:10

Only option that might save it is finding a PCB off an identical drive (Same part number, revision, firmware etc). I have done this once in the past with an old 320GB Seagate IDE drive which still works now. There's no way of knowing if it will fix it until you try though really!

GefGz · 19 May 2014 at 22:14

The click of death lol.

After losing 3TB of music and other various legally downloaded files one afternoon to a seagate drive dying I just refuse to use them anymore.

Scrimping on something such as storage is one of the biggest mistakes I think most people make when buying drives.

andy_mk3 · 19 May 2014 at 22:18

Yeah I've had a few seagate drives fail. I have 3x Samsung drives currently which have done really well.

Russell2014 · 20 May 2014 at 00:18

Hmm the click of death ok I won't use Seagate again saying, that I have wd mybook 640gig that's has lasted me over 5 years still running now only problem is use 2.0 and not 3.0.

When I get a new drive I'm going with a WD My book ok.
We're can I get these replacent boards and how much and r they easy to fit

darael · 20 May 2014 at 00:26

This is your best hope, before you trash it: http://forum.hddguru.com/

postmanfw · 20 May 2014 at 01:01

All brands of hard drive are prone to failure....i have found seagate to be the one of the more reliable brands and i see 100s of dead or faulty hard drives each year via my work.

wazza300 · 20 May 2014 at 01:46

I see a few modern seagates fail on here,i only own one and its old from a pentium4 yet it works fine so idk whats happened since then

samsung hdd's tend to be the most reliable for me,shame they sold that department cos they made great hdd's

darael · 20 May 2014 at 10:07

This is about when things went pear-shaped for Seagate: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/21/seagate_buys_maxtor/

Seagate were an okay brand and perhaps regarded as a reliable harddrive. I've always preferred preferred Hitachi drives myself (formerly IBM).

Russell2014 · 22 May 2014 at 12:04

Well I had a Maxton external hard drive ages ago but that failed aswell but I was able to recover that into the pc, so I have 2 external drives both failed able to recover one send not the other

leigh_boy · 22 May 2014 at 13:43

very common for the caddys to fail