"Keith G" wrote in message
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Having just posted (at length) about buying a PVR to use with a
'spare' 300 GB HDD in an external USB box that I have here, I have
*walked through* its sodding power lead and sent it flying! Now it
(the HDD itself) goes like this when I switch it on:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Hard%20Disk.mp3

..and the computer doesn't see it.

It *is* fuct isn't it....??

(Never heard an HDD make a noise before!!)

Any clues, before I start pounding it against a wall to *reactivate*
it..??



Hah! Seems, I'm not the only one (same drive):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7PCalQSxI


Following the YouTube links through the various 'HDD speaker' clips, I
soon ended up he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4jXhZgAPp4


(Don's got one of these *built in*...!! :-)