“So my hard drive started beeping all of a sudden and now it won't stop beeping when you plug it in. It dosent connect to my Xbox at this point and literally all of my games are on it. Does anybody know what's going on?”
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Do you guys do repair for a replacement harddrive on a xbox?
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.There are a few reasons a hard drive will beep. The most common is if it is near the end of it's life cycle. One way to check, and fix almost any error with a seagate drive (also the method i use and the method that is most often recommended by I.T. is to visit Seagate's website and download their program named SeaTools. It is easy to find ... seagates > support > software downloads ... and choose the option for windows. Plug the hard drive into your desktop or laptop that you downloaded and installed the program on then run the program. Once it has checked for supported drives and shows a list of hard drives, simply click the small white box to the left of the seagate hard drive that is used for your xbox and choose S.M.A.R.T. Check from the drop down menu near the top listed Basic tests. We want it to say Smart - Pass because this is good. If it finds any problems it will say something else that may have technical jargon. We don't need to understand the technical words or definitions to continue. Just select the drive again, go back to the drop down menu and this time select the fix all option. You will have 2 choices, fast or long. I recommend the Long, not be a Troll, but because this option has a greater chance of actually fixing all of the errors instead of maybe missing something or skipping some issues that may be considered minor by seagate but will still cause issues with game play if you are playing some of the high end, system intensive games. IF this does not fix the issue then thankfully there is a backup plan to recovering your games. You can (if you havent already) turn on the cloud backup option in your xbox menu and choose to backup your games. This will back up the user file parts that have your characters, items, stats, etc. Then either replace the hard drive with a new one or choose to just use the xbox internal hard drive if you have enough space. Once a game has been purchased from the xbox / microsoft store, you can re-download it without having to repurchase it. Just remember to uninstall the game from your xbox first. I hope this wasn't to confusing but it may be so I will summarize the "last resort" option - 1. back up to the cloud. 2. uninstall games. 3. go to xbox / microsoft store. 4. download games that show "purchased" or "owned" tags (games that you have previously purchased or redeemed codes for). 5. (might be needed for some games but not others) - sync your cloud back up with the game. basically when you log into the game if it provides and option for you to choose the directory you want to load from, choose your cloud drive. this will load the characters, settings, items, etc, for that particular game.
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