I had this hard disk for few month. its works fine. but last few day it give out low beep sound and try on a few pc also can not detect it. its still under warranty. but there is important data that i need. how to open up the case without breaking it?
Check if the warranty will cover this. If it does, they may be able to repair it and keep your data at the same time. Opening it would be a bad idea because that immediately voids your warranty. If you do open it, usually you can find some screws to take out, or they are just snapped together, a small flathead screwdriver usually does the trick for me. Once you get it open, your will still have to find a way to get the data off the hard drive inside (inside is a standard hard drive using a standard connection, SATA, PATA, IDE. Any computer repair place can retrieve that data for you). If you take the hard drive to someone to retrieve the data, the hard drive may possibly be defective. In that case, it is a whole new story and much more money to recover data from a bad hard drive.
Unfortunately, they are designed to void the warranty if opened. But since you mentioned trying different PC's, how about different USB cables, or perhaps a duplicate power supply, perhaps one of these items is the issue. There may be a software issue, in that instance if you can find an imaging program, like Acronis, or Macrium, they may detect the drive and **** the info off of it, in order to get any different results that windows the imaging programs will need to run off of "bootable media"
SOURCE: seagate freeagent 500g usb 2.0 beeps sound
I was plugging mine into a USB hub and getting a repeated beeping noise and nothing else. I then plugged it directly into my laptap USB ports and it worked fine. Seems to be a power issue.
SOURCE: seagate freeagent 500g usb 2.0 beeps sound
The thing is, that they do not want you to open the unit, so they make them to where it's near impossible to open without breaking it. Unless you've done it before, and know what you're doing, I wouldn't recommend it. There are many places that do data recovery for a lot less than what Seagate wants. They are still expensive, but considerably less than $1700. Google data recovery, and get some estimates.
SOURCE: seagate freeagent 500g usb 2.0 beeps sound
try to re-install the driver then plug it if that comes with no result u just try what the mate said google data recovery cuz i ve seen one of those hard disks its impossible to open the case without breaking it!!! they have the advantage to tell u that price but try google data recovery that is the best solution we recommand
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