Recent content by CRKelly

Yes, yes they do. I just like to do a good post life dissection to figure out exactly this particular failure happened. The more you know right? 😁

I didn't drop it. It was in a system and working fine until one reboot when this started happening.

It was doing this before I opened the housing. It is WHY I opened the housing to begin with. The drive was no longer functional, and the sounds and function are exactly the same as before I opened it.

Before everyone jumps all over me....I know the dangers of opening the drive! I already figured the data is trash, but I like to understand the "why" of things. 😁 When the HDD starts up, the disks spin fine, the read arm moves all the way across the heads to the center, then there is a beep, it...