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You have written that you have a desktop PC in your specs. Afraid of using it?
Even if the hdd was shot, the PC it was connected to won't suffer any damage. At most it will refuse to boot until the HDD is removed. Although at this point i'm pretty confident that it's just a faulty enclosure.
It means that the USB controller in the enclosure is still able to do the handshake with the usb controller in the PC (that is, establishing USB connection successfully). The damaged part seems to be the one handling SATA (the HDD's interface), it can interrogate the HDD's controller to get info about it, but can no more handle any data transfer in either direction.don't you think it means something?
Again, I had failed enclosures that were capable of triggering the beeping but were otherwise paperweights.
Being all this stuff a microcircuit carved with some kind of beam at a nanometer scale on a tiny piece of silicon inside of one of the chips in the enclosure, there is nothing that can be done to fix it. Affordably anyway.