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- dewilde
so my ext hard drive just fell over and now it wont load...any ideas? or am i sol?
- fooler20
you are fucked
- Nairn0
I recently too apart a friend's external HD as it had spacked out. Turned out it was the interface board between USB and HD that had failed, so by sticking it directly in to my PC, I was able to back up all the files. Then I got him a new enclosure, in to which he stuck his HD, y violet - it worked.
So, assuming you're not worried about voiding the warranty - I'd take the fucker apart. Better that than splurging a coupla hundred bucks on some feckless idiot trying and failing to recover data fro it, before you send it off to the manufacturers, only to get fobbed off anyway.
- Nairn0
But yes, if it's the result of a drop, you're probably fucked.
Mind you, half way through fixing my friend's HD, the unprotected innards fell off my table, clattering hideously on its corner on my concrete floor. I really though it'd be fucked after that... it wasn't.
- kona0
this is why my desk is covered with bubble wrap
- acescence0
as nairn said, make sure it's not the controller and is the drive itself. if it is indeed the drive and you've totally written it off, put it in the freezer overnight then let it thaw. the head just might be stuck and a little contraction in the cold might unstick it.
- zarkonite0
You could troubleshoot the connector board if there are more than one type of connections (USB/Firewire/eSata), happened to one of my WD drives that just the Firewire was broken...
Most portable drives detect sudden motion and will park the head into a safe zone (just like a vinyl), I'd rip the thing apart and try directly in the comp...
You could also boot up with a recovery OS like Knoppix, it fits on a DVD and it tends to be "smarter" about accessing data. It's helped me quite a few times to recup drives that wouldn't mount otherwise.
Also, you could manually force-mount the drive in OSX using "sudo mount -t" in the terminal... you'll just have to use the drive manager to figure out which hardware address the thing's at.
I've got more solutions if you're really brave =P
- thanks, i took it apart...is getting raped by a data recovery service not worth a damn?dewilde
- homeostatic0
These are great, zarkonite! I just had a LaCie drive stop mounting (not after dropping).
- dewilde0
thanks for the responses...do you think these will work even though i dropped it?
- boobs0
Do we look like data recovery experts?
- thatblokemike0
wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer