Re: USB Hard Drive Giving Problems


manu08 wrote:

Well, I called them up & they said I should call back in a few hours because they are upgrading their system for hotfixes or something like that.

The desktop has USB 2.0 & the laptop has USB 1.1. Also, it is not connected in the front USB port, it's in the rear port & yes I've tried connecting it to another USB port & the same thing happens. Files transfer to the hard drive but they keep pausing in between the transfer & the light on the hard drive that shows it's being used (it's red in my one) it usually flickers continously during a transfer, now in the midst of a transfer it just randomly disappears for 5 - 10 seconds & then appears back after that pause. I reinstalled Windows XP Home Edition on my desktop very very recently.

Now the problem has gotten a little worse, actually a lot worse. I transferred about 20GB of files to my hard drive just now & restarted my computer after that. Can't remember if I removed the hard drive through 'safely remove hardware', I think I did cause I never forget to almost 99% of the time. Now the drive is being shown as 'local disk' & when I try to access it I get "The drive is unreadable. The files are either corrupted or (I can't remember what the other one was, sorry)." Connected it my laptop and tried accessing it, got the same error message. Changed the USB cable, got the same error message. Connected it through Firewire, same error message. Since it was working perfectly fine on the laptop before I've initiated an "Extended Test" through WD Diagnostics to see if it comes up with anything. Also just before that in WD Diagnostics when I checked the hard drive properties, for health it said "warning". I have a feeling the drive has died out on me, is there any way I could recover my files myself? I've got about 200GB of files on it & do not have a back up of the stuff. Please help me asap.



Starting to get a little dicey. The question now is whether the hard drive
has failed or has the external drive electronics failed. The only way to
test this is to remove the hard drive, if possible, and test in a known,
working external USB case or as a slave drive (jumpered accordingly) in a
computer.

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