ChMy maxtor hard drive is making beeping noises when connected to my computer. It does not come up at all, it does beeps and stays beeping. Any suggestions?

I'd say you did a good job troubleshooting. Replace the drive.

Hi Jane,
If you are using Windows as an operation system, you can try to install the HDD manually

Click on the Start button
Right click on My Computer
click on properties at the bottom
look for the Hardware tab and click on it
look for the Device Manager button and click
look for Action in the top menu
then scan for new hardware

If this does not work, look on the Device Manager screen and you will see + Disk Drives
click on the + and it will list the drives that it sees
if you see the external HDD uninstall it and reboot

Hope this helps

the beeps are post during post the very first work is done by the ram,all the memory in the ram is first transferred to the hard disk,and remains active untill turned off.
make sure that your RAM is securely seated
make sure the usb lead/s have a secure seating and are not bad/faulty
hope this helps

Any Un-usual noise from the Disk is not a good sign. you can try the following

1. Try the device on another Computer.
2. Remove the Disk & try on Another Enclosure )Get some help if needed)

Hard drives don't beep. They make a lot of sounds, but no beeps. If the drive is actually making an unusual noise, it has probably gone bad. Clicking would be a bad disk. Any other noise would be a bad controller board. A good shop may be able to slave your drive to another computer to try and save your data. But don't count on it. By the time a drive makes a loud noise, it's usually gone and unrecoverable.
Before spending a lot of money to recover your data, try the external drive on another computer. Maybe the connection USB port has gone bad on the original computer.

two thing could be the power supply in the external box or it could be the drive it self
go to maxtor.com and download the software to test the drive

Its beeping because its damaged! sad to say but the beeping is an error code! the other downside is hard drives are hard to repair so you may need to buy a new one.

The beeping/clicking sound usually means your hard drive isnt far from "death."
You should be backing up all your data and yes, you can find people who get info back from hard drives, but this is very expensive.

The heads are riding on the platers. The drive is dead and not worth trying to fix. If there is data on it that you simply can not lose do a google search for "data recovery failed harddrive". The rule of thumb for a decent lad that can do this is price, if it costs less then 75$ per meg they probably are not that good.

consult the authorized service cenetr of amxtor as they can recover data from damged hard disk . carefull while connecting to pc . as it can damage pc if circuits are broken