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death of a harddrive


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Anybody know anything about a constant beeping sound eminating from a Maxtor 30 GB Diamond Plus 8 drive ?

 

Its my newest harddrive of only 2 years in age. It contained my windows partition (which I can afford to lose) and 2 storage partitions (which has a lot of my stuff). It also contained my lilo (MDK is on slave)

 

I would like to salvage anything I can, but am out of tricks trying to get the system to boot with this drive attached in any fashion.

 

Maxtor's web site claims their drives don't beep... but I swear... it is definiately their drive that is beeping. (I also tried this drive in another machine) I previously got "powermax" to partially run through a drive scan... but it locked up before finishing. And I already tried freezing it... but the beeps remain --- hot or cold --- before the system bios will recognize it during boot up.

 

thanks,

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