Re: Rescuing data from USB external HD

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I think I may go your route -- make my own external USB HD. Once you
have the drive and the case put together, how do you get the computer
(XP Home) to recognize the drive? This MyBook has given me no end of
trouble in the 5 months I've sadly owned it.

`
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Delicious!
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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:16:13 -0400, Don
<nntp.20.donald2007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|I've never heard of a warranty covering what's on the drive. If in
|doubt, you can take it to one of those data recovery places. Of course
|that will cost you some money. But then again, how valuable the data is
|may determine how much you are willing to pay to get it back. For the
|most part, I've found it cheaper to buy a hard drive and external case
|separately and just mount the disk myself.
|
|Lil' Dave wrote:
|> Unless one owns that particular external USB drive and disassembled it,
|> there's no way of knowing. For some reason, external enclosure combined
|> with hard drive, is not divulged the inner workings in specifications or
|> manual.
|>
|> If ide, only read the hard drive connected to ide on another PC. You may
|> have writing problems if not 48 bit lba capable PC.
|>
|> What? No warranty? Problem exists on both laptops and the PC?
|> Dave
|> <LadyDungeness@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|> news:u842b3dr0ni44rjf2o1lu01rs2f28cpadh@xxxxxxxxxx
|>> Thanks. Yes, I have installed internal HD's myself. In fact, I just
|>> installed an internal WD HD. It's working fine. Do you mean to say
|>> that inside the MyBook case there is just a regular HD? That I could
|>> pick it up and jumper it (somehow?) and attach an IDE cable to it?
|>>
|>> `
|>> Lady Dungeness
|>> Crabby, but Delicious!
|>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|>>
|>>
|>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:10:45 -0400, "Jonathan" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxx>
|>> wrote:
|>>
|>> |LadyDungeness@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|>> |> I am the sad owner of a Western Digital MyBook 320 gig USB external
|>> |> HD. My computer no longer recognizes it. I don't even get the
|>> |> message "USB device not recognized" or "unknown USB device". The HD
|>> |> powers up and the light comes on. That's it. Yes, I've tried other
|>> |> USB cables and ports. Yes, other USB devices work with the cables and
|>> |> ports.
|>> |> --------------------QUESTION--------------------
|>> |> I've got 200 gig of data on this thing, and I need to rescue it. How
|>> |> can I do that?
|>> |>
|>> |> --------------------QUESTION--------------------
|>> |> After I've got my data back, then what kind of external USB HD should
|>> |> I buy next? This one advertised Plug & Play -- No Installation
|>> |> Necessary -- Excellent Choice for Use with Multiple Computers --
|>> |>
|>> |>
|>> |> I have a desktop, a Sony laptop, and a Toshiba laptop. The one thing
|>> |> they have in common is USB ports and USB v2.0. All run Windows XP. I
|>> |> want a USB drive to use as an archived data storage device and to
|>> |> store backups of data on the three computers.
|>> |>
|>> |> `
|>> |> Lady Dungeness
|>> |> Crabby, but Delicious!
|>> |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|>> |
|>> | If it was myself I would remove the drive from the enclosure and install
|>> it
|>> |in a bay in a computer. Have you ever opened up a computer and installed
|>> a
|>> |second drive? If not and you do not feel comfortable with this prospect
|>> then
|>> |you could buy another Western Digital drive as they are usually very
|>> |reliable. You could then remove the new drive from its case and install
|>> the
|>> |faulty drive in its place. If you still can not retrieve the lost data
|>> you
|>> |may need to try other methods which maybe more costly and time consuming.
|>> |You may just have a bad connector in the USB case of the drive that is
|>> |inaccessible but this would what I would have done by now.
|>> |
|>> | I hope you have good luck and post back.
|>> |
|>> |Jon.
|>> |
|>
|>
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