External HD Problems... My comp or my fathers comp womt recognise my external hd anymore, all the leads are fine, just nothing coming up at all. was over 250gb of trance on there i have been collecting for about 4 years. I dread to think i have lost all this, i would be seriously wounded Is there a way to extract anything from this if it is a gonner??:cry2: :cry2:
is it powering up? you should still be able to access the drive. You could just remove it from it's enclosure and then hook it up to your PC
Its powering up fine, makes the usb daft noise, says maxtor usb device found. then comes up with 'the device has malfuctioned, can not be recognised'
try it on another PC, if it does the same - you're stuffed. sounds like the host controller bit is working (the bit between the PC and the actual hard disk) HOWEVER, if you dismantle it, inside there will be a standard hard drive - chuck it in your PC as a slave - job done.
The external HD is not recognised in either computers, it used to be until last night. BUT what your saying is if i take it to bits and run it as a slave in adifferent computer all my data will be still there ??
Possibly. You know whats weird, I was going to sign off my previous post saying "it's not a maxtor is it?" Wasn't aware they made external drives. Fucking shite brand mate, seen so many of these drives fail. Fortunatley, i've been able to recover the data of most of them
Yes i was told about 2 days after i bought it, be careful, there always going wrong. wish i had took it back and got a different1 This is the pile of shit How did u recover your data chris? the same as mos?
Has been tested by the engineer at work and its the motor which has gone, been getting a few quotes from data recovery firms and its gonne be over the £300 mark. needs to be done in a labrotory 'clean room' to extract the data from it. think theres only one word atm - bumped
have been insinde of it, and its actually a seagate drive being used. so basically its a seagate drive with a maxtor outer box, another thing also..... Ghi computers had them in the sale as a '500gb' HD maxtor Found out its only a '400GB' SEAGATE wtf?? somewhere along the line summit dodgy has happened hence the cheapness of them.
Most probs being paying it like, it had EVERYTHING i ever had on it, music mostly, pics, passwords, vids etc... Like ive been robbed
Seagate now own maxtor so that will explain that try whats been suggested with an IDE connection, worth a shot highlights the importance of backup...not that thats much help
I need to buy myself two externals like, all my stuff is on my computers hard drive, 3 years worth of music and I dont have the cunt backed up, foolish really since when my last pc died it was the hard drive that went first
i dont really need the use of an external, so i just bought a reconditioned Seagate 500gb Internal for 30 quid, and i just back my stuff up on there, bearing in mind i've still got a 350gig, 40gig and a 5gig still in the machine. might just have a mass re-shuffle and whack em all on the 350, stick the 500 in the machine and just plug it in when i need it. and can you get external SATA ports?
