I recently purchased a couple of old hard drives on Saturday at a local thrift store:

1) Quantum Fireball ST 3.5 Series
2) Western Digital WD100 (cannot tell since it was installed in a Compaq Presario desktop hence the sticker)

I decided to swap my 60GB Maxtor HDD (when they bought out Quantum) with the two HDDs to see if there was any data or OS on it, and the Western Digital didn't have any as it was wiped by the previous owner (thankfully), but I ended up DBANing the drive to remove its MBR by writing zeroes.

I attempted to access the Quantum Fireball ST 3.5 Series HDD with my external enclosure and Lubuntu 17.10 LTS 64-bit on my laptop, which did get detected and mounted easily, but whenever I would attempt to access the directories, I hear a beeping noise coming from the HDD. I ran the disk checker in GParted for any errors, and nothing. The OS that was on there was Windows 2000 Professional (laptop attempted to boot the OS, but Blue screened since Windows 2000 cannot boot from a USB port).

Also, I attempted to DBAN the hard drive, and it still beeped. Would it be hard drive failure? My other plan is to hook up the HDD to the IDE port on one of my machines, run the Live version of Linux, and check for bad sectors or failing parameters (SMART).