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Old January 31st 04, 03:28 AM
Max
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Jeff, Thank you for the insightful info. I did suspect the sound was
made by the motor because right before the beeping tone, the drive motor
made two subtle noise.

Ok, so now we all agree that the hard drive made the beeping tone, can
anyone offer any suggestions on why the sounds were made and any
possible solutions to recover the data?

I have read somewhere that simply replacing an identical PCB probably
will not fix anything, and may even damage the drive. So there goes the
idea of buying another 200GB drive (identical model). Differences such
as firmware or other stuff subtle differences will screw up the data on
the platters.

The idea of putting the hard drive in the freezer will most likely
damage the drive. My reasoning is this: when you take the very cold
hard drive out of the freezer, the normal room temperature vs. cold hard
drive temperature will form water residues (based on my past disection
of hard drives, it doesn't seem to be air tight). These water residues
will screw up the electronics and may possibly short something out.
Regardless, it probably won't be a pretty sight.

Ok, let's see if someone can offer some insights here Hey, Thank you
all for pitching in. I respect everyone's opinion..



As a hobby I fly electric powered radio controlled model airplanes.
Many of the microprocessor based speed controls for these planes make
the motor chirp when they are connected to the battery. Then they
emit two chirps to signal that they are getting a proper signal from
the transmitter and are now armed (watch out for that propellor!)
These are intentional chirps generated by the microprocessor switching
the motor on and off rapidly. The sound is emitted by the coils of the
motor.

My guess is that the beeps from the hard drive are also intentional
and signal some kind of fault, similar to the beeps from a motherboard
that fails during boot-up.

Jeff