My helpful children knocked it off the desk. It now will not spin up, just makes a beeping noise every few seconds. I see from the seagate forums this is an issue even with HD that have not been knocked around. From what I have gathered from my research, it could be either the moter or the controller, as the beeps are indicative of the hd trying to spin up. I have removed it rom the case and installed it in another vista desktop, same beeping noise. I would just buy another, different brand, but my daughter moved all the family photos for the last 5 yrs off her laptop onto this drive. 🙁 Any clue what I could try to get it working one more time, so I could retrieve all the photots? Then I will buy a few smaller drives and make redundant back-ups.
