One of the problems with Disk Drives is their propensity to fail due to manual shock. I suspect that the shock caused the read/write heads to break or misalign causing the noise when power is applied to the drive. As you know those heads fly about 2 microns above the platters supported by the air flow generated by the spin. When the drive is turned off the heads are auto retracted to the center of the disk where they come to rest as the disk spins down. If the disk is dropped from more than a foot, the heads strike the disk and bounce.If the heads are not active, they may bend or **** to the left or right. When you activate the drive, the heads may scrape the surface causing more damage. There are recovery businesses out there that charge a lot for their services. What they have to do is take your drive apart and install the platter(s) in another good like drive and try and write the data else where.
If the data is important, then a good rule of thumb is to always have two sources, such as two like drives and write the data to the two drives just in case.
I bought my drive about two years ago. The drive worked for two weeks and then failed, no recognition, the drive would not spin up. Ran the maxtore Max Blast software that came with the drive. The software examined the disk drive and kicked off an error code number and said to contact Maxtor. The internet site sent me a return product memorandum which I printed out and sent the drive back to Maxtor. They sent me a new drive. Cost me ten bucks to ship it. I think the warranty is 1 year. Also Maxtor was bought up by Seagate. If your drive is less than 1 year old, you may want to do the same.
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SOURCE: No Power to my Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500GB
HI I AM SHAHBAZ GILL FROM GREECE ..I HAVE PROBLEM FOR THIS .PLZZ HELP ME................ Seagate free agent desktop 500 gb........ directory is corruted ..
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