Seagate 2GB External Hard drive not Working

[marifrit]

I dropped my hard drive and now it just makes a beeping noise while plugged into my computer with a usb. The light still works normally and the hard drive is detected on device management under disk drives but that is it. I've also tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it which did not work. I've tried multiple USB ports and a different computer.

 

[nitrium]

I dropped my hard drive and now it just makes a beeping noise while plugged into my computer with a usb. The light still works normally and the hard drive is detected on device management under disk drives but that is it. I've also tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it which did not work. I've tried multiple USB ports and a different computer.

I assume it's a 2 TB drive (not 2 GB) - cos that would make it like 20 years old. Anyway dropped HDDs are more often than not toast (depending on the height). You could try it in another enclosure, but I suspect it's dead.

 

[marifrit]

I dropped my hard drive and now it just makes a beeping noise while plugged into my computer with a usb. The light still works normally and the hard drive is detected on device management under disk drives but that is it. I've also tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it which did not work. I've tried multiple USB ports and a different computer.

I assume it's a 2 TB drive (not 2 GB) - cos that would make it like 20 years old. Anyway dropped HDDs are more often than not toast (depending on the height). You could try it in another enclosure, but I suspect it's dead.

Yeah it's 2TB and that's what I figured just wanted to make sure there is nothing else I can do. I just find it strange that it is somehow still detected by disk management. Also the height was at most a foot off the ground it fell.

 

[COLGeek]

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Question from marifrit : "Seagate External Hard Dive Does Not Work Only Beeps"

My external hard drive when plugged into my computer makes a beeping noise with a regular constant white light. It is detected by device management but not by anything else. I've tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it which has not worked. These issues happened after I dropped it.

 

[nitrium]

[Yeah it's 2TB and that's what I figured just wanted to make sure there is nothing else I can do. I just find it strange that it is somehow still detected by disk management. Also the height was at most a foot off the ground it fell.

It's still detected by disk management because the HDD's controller (being solid state and not prone to damage from shocks) is still perfectly fine and working normally and thus communicates as usual with your PC. The physical side the drive, i.e. the spinning platters where all the data is stored, not so much.