Maxtor Chirping? What is This

[tina]

I had used a Maxtor Onetouch II to back up files. To use it I just
pluged it in. The system recognized it and all was well.

I reinstalled the system - pluged it in. The system sees the drive but
it is not in the files list .

Same thing on another computer that was not changed in anyway.

The secong I plug it in to either pc it whirs and chimes. what is that
about? is the chime/chirp a signal of something.

Both computers are XP Home

 

[Arno Wagner]

I had used a Maxtor Onetouch II to back up files. To use it I just
pluged it in. The system recognized it and all was well.

I reinstalled the system - pluged it in. The system sees the drive but
it is not in the files list .

Same thing on another computer that was not changed in anyway.

The secong I plug it in to either pc it whirs and chimes. what is that
about? is the chime/chirp a signal of something.

Both computers are XP Home

Might be the heat related death all external Maxtor drives suffer
earlier or later. I hope you don't need the data on the drive.

Arno

 

[tina]

Might be the heat related death all external Maxtor drives suffer
earlier or later. I hope you don't need the data on the drive.

Arno

Need is all in the eyes of the beholder. It will be ok...but the drive
wasn't even mine.

 

[tina]

Need is all in the eyes of the beholder. It will be ok...but the drive
wasn't even mine.

What has me confused is that the chime./chirp sound like it is a
warning or something. It is clearly programed in....

 

[Arno Wagner]

What has me confused is that the chime./chirp sound like it is a
warning or something. It is clearly programed in....

Harddisks can produce the oddest sounds. This is likely the
disk trying (and failing) to recalibrate the heads. The sound
is not intended to tell the user anything.

The problem with the external Maxtor disks is that a) Maxtor
disks generate a lot of heat, more than for example Seagate
or Samsung disks, b) Maxtor cools them very badly and
c) heat is a primary HDD killer.

Arno

 

[Impmon]

What has me confused is that the chime./chirp sound like it is a
warning or something. It is clearly programed in....

There isn't any built in warning sound to hard drives itself. Some
external drive case would have a temp sensor but it would be more
likely a beeping sound. If your drive sounds more like a pained
banshee, time to back up the data and get a new one.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

There isn't any built in warning sound to hard drives itself.

And how would you know that.
Do you have a museum with every harddrive ever built in it and have you exten-
sively researched each and every one under each and every possible condition?

Personally I have had an IBM harddrive that exhibited that behaviour when
it sometimes failed to spin up. Sounding like a siren, scared the hell out of me.
Yet when it spun up normally it was perfectly fine.

 

[Rod Speed]

And how would you know that.

There would have been some comment about that by now if it was true.

Do you have a museum with every harddrive ever
built in it and have you extensively researched each
and every one under each and every possible condition?

Dont need that on that particular claim.

Dont need that to be able to say that not one hard
drive ever made can fart its way to the moon either.

Personally I have had an IBM harddrive that exhibited that behaviour
when it sometimes failed to spin up. Sounding like a siren, scared the
hell out of me. Yet when it spun up normally it was perfectly fine.

Irrelevant to whether that noise is a deliberate
designed in problem indication to the user, stupid.

 

[tina]

There would have been some comment about that by now if it was true.


Dont need that on that particular claim.

Dont need that to be able to say that not one hard
drive ever made can fart its way to the moon either.


Irrelevant to whether that noise is a deliberate
designed in problem indication to the user, stupid.

Children stop fighting.

My point is that I get a sound that is like a beep/cheap that slowing
rising in pitch, the starts again.

It only occurs when the drive is connected the pc's usb port.

 

[tina]

There would have been some comment about that by now if it was true.


Dont need that on that particular claim.

Dont need that to be able to say that not one hard
drive ever made can fart its way to the moon either.


Irrelevant to whether that noise is a deliberate
designed in problem indication to the user, stupid.

Children stop fighting.

My point is that I get a sound that is like a beep/cheap that slowing
rising in pitch, the starts again.

It only occurs when the drive is connected the pc's usb port.

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

Children stop fighting.

Get stuffed.

My point is that

You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.

Your point in spades.

I get a sound that is like a beep/cheap
that slowing rising in pitch, the starts again.

It only occurs when the drive is connected the pc's usb port.

It likely is the drive recalibrating when it cant read what needs to be read.

 

[None]

What?

And how would you know that.
Do you have a museum with every harddrive ever built in it and have you
exten-
sively researched each and every one under each and every possible
condition?

Personally I have had an IBM harddrive that exhibited that behaviour when
it sometimes failed to spin up. Sounding like a siren, scared the hell out
of me.
Yet when it spun up normally it was perfectly fine.

 

[thstone]

Usually when the drive starts chirping or beeping like that, it's an indication that the drive is not getting enough power.

MAKE SURE that you're using the cable that came with the drive that has TWO USB connectors that plug into the computer (one is for power and one for power and data). This cable looks like a "Y", where the two tops of the Y plug into the computer and the bottom of the Y plugs into the drive. This is how Maxtor avoided having an external power supply (wall wart) on these drives (by using the power from two USB ports). If you're using just a plain old single ended USB cable on the computer side, this is probably the problem. Get the right cable and try again.

It's possible that you are plugging into unpowered or low power USB ports. Try using the USB ports that are directly connected to the PC (do not use a USB hub).

Use USB 2.0 ports if they are available.

Try connecting the drive to another computer (and following all of the advice above) beore giving up.


This got my drive working again!