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Question

External HDD Problem - Doesn't show up anymore!!

by Jan 14, 2014 6:51PM PST

Hi
any kind of help will be apreciated!
My HDD is Maxtor Basic Personal Storage 500GB.
It goes back when a friend of mine was with me at home. We were transfering data from PC to HDD or vice versa I don't remember exactly until my friend suddenly unplugged the power cable and since then it doesn't work properly anymore; it doesn't even show up; it doesn't show up in disk management too. When I try to initialize it; it says " its not ready". when I connect it, I can hear it working with a sound like "rrrrrrrrrrrr" but after a while 3 minutes or so I don't hear any sound.
The problem is that I have 311GB of precious data stuck there. What shall I do ro recover my data?
Please help me!
Thanks in advance

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Try this drive in a new enclosure.
by Forum moderator Jan 14, 2014 11:42PM PST

Or in some desktop.

If that fails to show the drive in BIOS or DM, then it's usually off to drive savers.com

-> Is this your first loss? That is, I find folk can't be taught backup. They must learn it.
Bob

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Ditto....
by Jan 15, 2014 10:40AM PST

try another USB port
try another USB cable
Remove the drive from current enclosure and connect as an internal drive in a desktop PC.
If it works as an internal HDD and you still want to use it as an external HDD....just get a new external enclosure and install the HDD in it.

If those fail.....you either loose the data or send it away for data recovery....but it will cost you dearly.

Let us know how it works out.

VAPCMD

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by DeadHDD Jan 15, 2014 7:09PM PST

Hi, Thank you for your replies
I have already took it off of its enclosure and plugged it directly to my PC, but nothing changed- it says "the material can't function correctly". I have also used an adaptor but same result.
Right now, I have the idea to buy a compatible PCB as I think there is a hardware problem in the HDD. hopefully it shall work.

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So what's on the drive is not important?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 16, 2014 1:01AM PST

I find that drivesaver's rates go up if the owner has modified the drive. Or such a change can remove any recovery hope.
Bob

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(NT) Sorry to hear...let us know how it works out.
by VAPCMD Jan 16, 2014 9:59AM PST
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refrigerator
by James Denison Jan 17, 2014 2:34AM PST

Put the drive in enclosure in the refrigerator a few hours, then try it. If it works, copy quick.

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data recovery
by May 3, 2014 3:15PM PDT

Only if your data is not changed, it will help you recover them all. The only thing you need to do is to take the following simple steps.
Step one. You can download 4Card Recovery freely on the internet and install it on your computer.
Step two. Run it and select the photos that you want to recover.
Step three. Scan it and wait for several minutes.
Step four. Save your recovered data on other disk in case of losing it again.

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data recovery
by May 3, 2014 3:18PM PDT

Only if your data is not changed, recovery tool is able to deal with your problem.
Although recovery tool can help you restore your files, you need to know that if the old data changed, it will gone forever. Therefore be very careful and remember to abckip.
First, try recovery tool.
Step one. You can download 4Card Recovery freely on the internet and install it on your computer.
Step two. Run it and select the photos that you want to recover.
Step three. Scan it and wait for several minutes.
Step four. Save your recovered data on other disk in case of losing it again.

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