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I have a Seagate FreeAgent External Hard Drive, 1TB USB 2.0., that dropped from about a foot off of the floor, the hard drive was on when it fell, now all I hear is a beeping sound when its plugged in. The LED doesnt come on I just hear a "beep......beep" sound over and over, any advice?

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  • itzabhijith Sep 15, 2009

    I have 320 GB seagate freeagent go which I bought 2 months back. I formatted it to FAT32. Now I have around 30 GB data out of 320 GB. Suddenly from a week back onwards, I am not able to access a folder. And from 2 days I am not able to access one more folder.. I had the same problem earlier so I formated it once completely..
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1. the drive is damaged and needs to be replaced
2. You probably have separated the platten inside or damaged the reading mechanism inside by dropping it.
3. Hard drive are assemble in a clean room environment and have very precise tolerances are delicate devices. dropping one from just a foot from the floor will damage it.

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The hard disk is very sensitive for shock, i think your hard disk is dead

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