Harddrive Beeping

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My hard drive is not recognized by the bios and wont boot. It does some sort of beeping when i start up the computer. Seagate Barracuda 2TB

[rambi36]

Is your drive new or did you use it previously?

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I have been using it for a while now

[flibberdipper]

Stuck heads. Basically, time for a new drive.

[Kyuubixchidori]

Might be dead. if this is the case,

throw it in a bag, into the freezer, then after a few hours you itll work for 5-10 minutes. watch out for condensation, keep it away from everything else in your case. had to do this with my bros hard drive. his situation was a clicking noise, like it was trying to spin but couldnt. 

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i also dual booted Win10 not sure if that had anything to do wiht it though since thts been on there for a couple days and i hadnt been using that

[flibberdipper]

Might be dead. if this is the case,

throw it in a bag, into the freezer, then after a few hours you itll work for 5-10 minutes. watch out for condensation, keep it away from everything else in your case. had to do this with my bros hard drive. his situation was a clicking noise, like it was trying to spin but couldnt. 

This literally does nothing, or it will fuck it up even more. Common myth.

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Is there anything i can do to fix this?

[Vivilacqua1]

my computer beeps a few times when it turns (cant remember if it is when it turns on of off), but it beeps. I don't know if it is the hdd because I have never listened carefully to it. It seems to run fine though, so I wouldnt worry about your pc

[Kyuubixchidori]

This literally does nothing, or it will fuck it up even more. Common myth.

well, considering that it wouldnt boot, froze it, then it worked until it got warm again, going to have to disagree with you. granted it wont work with every hard drive every time it doesnt work, worked enough to get important infromation off of the drive. 

[flibberdipper]

well, considering that it wouldnt boot, froze it, then it worked until it got warm again, going to have to disagree with you. granted it wont work with every hard drive every time it doesnt work, worked enough to get important infromation off of the drive. 

Killed 3 of my drives with the same problem as the OP. And I did it the same way.

[natecook]

Beeping hard drive = failed hard drive.

 

OP, if there's important info on the drive, don't freeze it. Attempt a software-based data recovery or send it to a data recovery specialist. If the data is not important, the freezing thing sometimes works. It works extremely rarely and always kills the drive soon afterwards as condensation builds up.

 

Also, if it's a 2TB, I'm guessing that it's still in warranty. If I were you, I'd buy a new drive and an external enclosure. Use the new drive in your PC. When you get a refurbished 2TB drive back from warranty, pop it in the enclosure. I wouldn't keep important data on a refurb drive, but it's fine as a backup.