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The bearings on the spindle motor are going out. The humming you are hearing is going away as the bearings heat up and expand inside the race. They are still probably allowing the platter to vibrate and preventing the reader heads from keeping a smooth track over the data. The machine is locking up when it receives data from the drive it can't interpret. Alignment is critical in modern high-speed precision hard drives.
If you have any important data on the drive, copy it off now while the drive still works at all.
Last edited by Psycho0124; 07-03-2008 at 07:55 PM..
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