Seagate 2T Turns on shuts down and starts blinking

[Bruno Barros]

So i was working on a short film college project and my seagate fell and stopped working , when i pluged it in it starts making a weird noise ( like some van is hiting somewere ) than it stops making noise and starts blinking a blue light , this is the final project , i have no backups , i have to present it in 2 days and im freaking out , please could somebody help

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey Bruno. I'm sorry to have to say it, but things don't sound too good from what I hear. The noise is most likely an indication that the drive has suffered physical damage and there might be something wrong with the head. You could always try taking it out of the enclosure (which is not recommended if the drive is under warranty, because it would probably void it) and try connecting it internally to see if the drive is recognized this way, but having in mind the noise - there's little chance that taking it out of the enclosure would help. Right now, in my opinion, your best option is a data recovery company, which could often prove to be quite costly and I don't know if the amount of time you have will be enough. You could always try some data recovery software and hope for the drive to be recognized long enough for you to recover the project. Here's a link to a thread with data recovery solutions: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

Best of luck mate. I hope you're able to get your important data.