Hard drive making musical sounds on boot???

[tnu5]

This new hitatchi 400gb sata seems to be making musical noted on boot and xp does not find the drive to install onto.


Anyone heard of this?

 

[defakto]

Are you sure it's the drive and not the bios? Also, you may need to load drivers from floppy or slipstream them into an xp install for it to see drives on the sata controller during install.

 

[tnu5]

Are you sure it's the drive and not the bios? Also, you may need to load drivers from floppy or slipstream them into an xp install for it to see drives on the sata controller during install.

No, if I unplug the hd's power the sound is no longer there. Ya, I'm using the 3.5 sata driver install...

 

[tnu5]

the head is frozen.

doa, sigh

 

[Tyhr]

Last time I ever heard a drive create music was on my Commodore 1541 5.25" floppy drive. There was an app that grinded the head and created music. Not great for the drive, but...lol

 

[tdg]

Funny sounds and no detection is a usually a bad sign, probably RMA time.