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Sleeper PC 2016
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I plugged in my probably 7 or 8 year old seagate 1 tb external hard drive and it's being weird. When I plug it into my computer, the drive spins up and the hard drive enclosure starts making a quiet beeping noise. It makes 2 short beeps, pause, and 2 short beeps, then it repeats. Windows doesn't show the contents of it until I connect it to a another usb port on the computer and then it works. I then tried connecting it to a virtual box virtual machine and it started beeping again. The contents of the drive are still there. Any ideas?

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What? Finally you came back visit! I run away from G+ and became a Newbie here...

 

Plug off and Plugging it again?

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Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

What? Finally you came back visit! I run away from G+ and became a Newbie here...

 

Plug off and Plugging it again?

Same thing, it just beeps. And I still go on g+, just haven't made many posts there. Haven't posted here in awhile

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Sounds like the drive is going to die soon. Try to get the data off from it. The beeping can be seeking noises from the drive.

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Just now, Anghammarad said:

Sounds like the drive is going to die soon. Try to get the data off from it. The beeping can be seeking noises from the drive.

The hard drive is making only 2 short beeps and a pause indicating an error. It does it on both the usb 2 and 3 ports. And where am I going to dump 700 GB of data onto? I don't have another terabyte hdd nor the money for a google drive 1 tb subscription The biggest hdd I got is 500 gb and over 300 gb is used. I guess it's hard drive shopping for me :(. This summer I plan on upgrading the ram in my pc so I may as well find a hard disk along with it.

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5 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Sounds like the drive is going to die soon. Try to get the data off from it. The beeping can be seeking noises from the drive.

And I already know it's on it's way out because crystaldisk info says caution

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2 minutes ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

The hard drive is making only 2 short beeps and a pause indicating an error. It does it on both the usb 2 and 3 ports. And where am I going to dump 700 GB of data onto? I don't have another terabyte hdd nor the money for a google drive 1 tb subscription The biggest hdd I got is 500 gb and over 300 gb is used. I guess it's hard drive shopping for me :(. This summer I plan on upgrading the ram in my pc so I may as well find a hard disk along with it.

That dual monitor PC? I forgot is it Intel Skylake?

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

Mention me if you want to summon me sooner or later

Spoiler

My head on 2019 :

Note 10, S10, Samsung becomes Apple, Zen 2, 3700X, Renegade X lol

 

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8 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

That dual monitor PC? I forgot is it Intel Skylake?

And I changed the secondary monitor to a dell ultra sharp 4x3 monitor. Fits way better and has a slightly higher resolution 

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3 minutes ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

And I changed the secondary monitor to a dell ultra sharp 4x3 monitor. Fits way better and has a slightly higher resolution 

Is it already the same as the one you have recommend me on H@ng0u75?

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

Mention me if you want to summon me sooner or later

Spoiler

My head on 2019 :

Note 10, S10, Samsung becomes Apple, Zen 2, 3700X, Renegade X lol

 

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