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hard drive beeping
Name: Jonathan Date: December 28, 2002 at 12:35:09 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: xp2100 512 megs ram
Comment:
I did a bad thing and accidently plugged in a drive while the power was on. Now the drive makes a grinding beep sound when the motherboard tries to access it. I really would like a file off of that drive so I'm wondering if there's any way to still acccess the files or get the drive working, though I dont expect it :\
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