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Opened it inside a vacuumed sealed box and found out that there was a thin dark ring around the platter. So that's a dead hard drive as far as I'm concerned. Don't know how this happened after a couple of month of light use and no bumps but I guess that's my luck. Going to send it to a new ...

Sorry for the double post but I have an update.

So I decided to bite the bullet and open the drive up. Used a Sata connector and the result is the same, except now, the drive makes more beeps as it spins.
So I guess it might be a physical issue after all.

The drive is still detected as Seagate ...

Thanks for the answer, cgrenier.

Judging from this disassembly video of the same hard drive, I think there is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HakoHteqxDU
Isn't it the part that gets disconnected around the 1 minute mark?

Would a SATA to USB connector work as opposed to a new enclosure? I'm ...

Hi,

My Maxtor external hard drive spontaneously decided to stop working the other day. It was plugged in and as I was downloading data on it, it suddenly made a weird noise and now it won't mount on my Mac. It was formatted as an NTFS drive and I use Paragon.

When I plug it in, the blue light ...