Topic: Hard drive Failure (light flashing w/ Beeping sound) Recover Data?

[ibu]

Hi

I have a Seagate FreeAgent Go 880GB hard drive which i plugged in today it is giving me a sound along with flashing light.... Also the drive is not detectable in windows

I just want to recover data from this hard drive.

Can some one guide me on how to do this?

[Samker]

HI Ibu,

don't worry, We'll do our best to help you. 

For the start I need more information about this HDD:

- how this problem occur ?

- when did you last time used them ?

- did this disc work 100% properly at that time ?

- did you try to install something on them, format them, make a partition or something like that ??


Also, for quick help, here you have two "old" but very "similar" cases with very good advices:

http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,5722.0.html

http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,3399.0.html


First provide us additional information and after that try to resolve this problem with advices from these two Topics.

cya later,

S.

[ibu]

Thanks

BTW this is an external hard drive

(In case required here is the pic of the drive here is the pic of the drive)

- Last time I plugged in the drive it was working perfectly fine... today when i plugged in using three different cables its not working giving me the same beeping sound and flashing light... although i see my device manger displaying a driver as "intio combo default controller" when i plug in the hard drive

- last used less than a week

- yes it was working 100%

- No i didn't install, format or partition the drive

I will look at these cases two and see if i can find a solution out of it

[jmoon]

Thanks

BTW this is an external hard drive

(In case required here is the pic of the drive here is the pic of the drive)

- Last time I plugged in the drive it was working perfectly fine... today when i plugged in using three different cables its not working giving me the same beeping sound and flashing light... although i see my device manger displaying a driver as "intio combo default controller" when i plug in the hard drive

- last used less than a week

- yes it was working 100%

- No i didn't install, format or partition the drive

I will look at these cases two and see if i can find a solution out of it

Go to icare-recovery.com and download the free tool and scan it.  I have utilized this tool with pen drives and external usb drives when they are not detectable anymore and have worked great.  Test it out.