A long period beep before starting

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Mark Obita - Updated by aquarelle on 27/02/17 at 10:53 AM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Feb 27, 2017 at 03:31 PM
Hello,
am mark obita my dell latitude has a hard drive that suddenly can't boot and makes a long period beep before it goes i think the head is stuck but i opened and the heads aren't stuck so maybe the head can't enterto make contack with the disc

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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Feb 27, 2017 at 03:31 PM
If you opened the hard drive case then you have effectively DISTROYED the drive ad made the data unreadable. I expect you will need to replace the drive and re-install Windows.

Good Luck
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