

Some of you have complained about hard drives are making noises during operations such as connecting to your computers, transferring files, etc. However, if you start hearing noises occasionally or sound that you haven't heard before like clicking, beeping, vibration or grinding, there might be something wrong. The hard drive is usually nearly silent, but sometimes it emits a muted clicking sound when it is being accessed or turned off. I turned on my Xbox and the stuff on it doesn't show up on the console. Hard Drive Making Clicking Noise or Beeping Sound "I have a Seagate hard drive that I've used for maybe a year and it started beeping.

The previous owner left neither the key to the box nor the code to the console. I just want this thing out of my life and I don't know how to make that happen. Most things I try result in either the small alarm going off or the big alarm in the wall going off. We opted for a more modern system and left this one to gather dust. The subscription isn't active, and the system hasn't been used since we bought the house a few years ago. Since then, every few nights, the console beeps until I hold the reset button. It started when a tree took out the phone line.
