Storage Solutions IOMEGA External 1TB HDD Working Like Magnet

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Hello, I purchased a IOMEGA 1TB External HDD from UK (When my cousin went there), around 3-4 years ago. The HDD was working fine till 20th. But from 21st morning HDD was not getting detected, and I thought it might be some problem with the USB Cable. And due to office I didn't get much time and didn't bothered.

But now when I tried to change the USB, it didn't worked. And I noticed that HDD is behaving like Magnet. I don't know what it's attracting but the power is too much.

Then I detach the case, as it's out of warranty anyway, and there's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Series HDD. I connected it without the case too, just thought might be some problem with the case, but the HDD is working like magnet. It's spinning like a magnet.

May be due to my bad english I can't explain, but the thing is, when I turn it on, a magnetic field gets generated, and it spins like a high power magnet.

Is it dead? Or anything I can do?
 
Mate, are you sure you found a seagate 7200.11 drive inside the IOMEGA casing ? Its a ready made IOMEGA drive, right ?. I never expected that IOMEGA would use seagate drives under the brand name of IOMEGA...
 
anfjavid said:
Mate, are you sure you found a seagate 7200.11 drive inside the IOMEGA casing ? Its a ready made IOMEGA drive, right ?. I never expected that IOMEGA would use seagate drives under the brand name of IOMEGA...
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Yes. I have opened the casing to check if there's something wrong with the casing.
 
anfjavid said:
Mate, are you sure you found a seagate 7200.11 drive inside the IOMEGA casing ? Its a ready made IOMEGA drive, right ?. I never expected that IOMEGA would use seagate drives under the brand name of IOMEGA...
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All hdd Manufacturers use Seagate drive they do not Manufacturer there own drive they just give there name
 
rishimewara said:
All hdd Manufacturers use Seagate drive they do not Manufacturer there own drive they just give there name
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You know what, i had bought a Hitachi Neso external HDD (not true external because it had a normal laptop HDD inside, more of an enclosure with laptop hdd) 4 years back and when i opened the case, i found a WD HDD inside.
 
anfjavid said:
Mate, are you sure you found a seagate 7200.11 drive inside the IOMEGA casing ? Its a ready made IOMEGA drive, right ?. I never expected that IOMEGA would use seagate drives under the brand name of IOMEGA...
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right, iomega hard drives , where did you get that idea from? :D

rishimewara said:
All hdd Manufacturers use Seagate drive they do not Manufacturer there own drive they just give there name
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they use manufacturers, who make the internal HDD's inside the casing, not necessarily Seagate

raksrules said:
You know what, i had bought a Hitachi Neso external HDD (not true external because it had a normal laptop HDD inside, more of an enclosure with laptop hdd) 4 years back and when i opened the case, i found a WD HDD inside.
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thats my point.

HDD internal manufacturers would be Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, WD

so external HDD's from Verbatim, Iomega, Lacie, and others would use one of the above...
 
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