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PrintableIllustrator said: ArielB said: Yes, you could take the hard drive out of the box and connect it as an internal hard drive to your PC. Whenever my hard drive isn't enough for my girlfriend's box & she has to connect an external one to her PC, I can't help but feel a bit emasculated.  Floppy disc problems?  | |
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fathermcmeekle said: Steadwood said: Maybe you need to tow 2 cars behind you just in case one breaks down 
 Or a caravan, then I could put my chilled goods in the little fridge and I wouldn't have to rush home. You might need to tow a car behind that in case yours breaks down 
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Joking aside. External HD are the devil incarnate. You back all your stuff up and then poof it dies. I would take it in and see if it's just the case or the motor or something. Your Hard Disk maybe fine, but the case is junk.
I'd have someone look at it for you. There is a good possibility you didn't lose your stuff. Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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ArielB said: abierman said: I think it is too, therefore I wanna know if there is a way to retrieve the data even if the box is fucked..... Yes, you could take the hard drive out of the box and connect it as an internal hard drive to your PC. Of course, make sure that the PC is not only shut off, but out of the electric socket when you connect the hard drive internally to it. But if it's a laptop, then just getting the box fixed, or replaced. If it's the box, then your data is safe in the hard drive until you get the box fixed. [Edited 5/13/07 14:57pm] He can simply get another case and swap it out and see if that works. Me...I am getting a tower with 2 Hard drives one that backs it up and another that will mirror it incase if the HD goes caput! Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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abierman said: jerseykrs said: worst case scenario you just pay a data recovery business to get it all off the drive.
 I just think it's ironic in an un-fuckin'-funny way: you install an external HD to prevent your files from getting lost by an eventual crash of your computer, then the damned dies on you!  Same with an iPod. People think that they are great music back ups, but what happens when it dies...or even worse your computer dies and then you can NEVER SYNC IT AGAIN! Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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abierman said: jerseykrs said: worst case scenario you just pay a data recovery business to get it all off the drive.
I just think it's ironic in an un-fuckin'-funny way: you install an external HD to prevent your files from getting lost by an eventual crash of your computer, then the damned dies on you! It seems like too much for individuals to do, but at my job we back up with two external drives, alternating week by week. Then if/when one dies, chances are the other one's still okay and you've only lost a week's data at most. My Legacy
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2the9s said: Have you tried fixing it?
Hope that helps!
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fathermcmeekle said: Similar thing happened to me except it was my car that died on me.
Have you tried replacing the carburetor? Worked for me.  samething happened to me last week, I had to be towed
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superspaceboy said: Joking aside. External HD are the devil incarnate. You back all your stuff up and then poof it dies. I would take it in and see if it's just the case or the motor or something. Your Hard Disk maybe fine, but the case is junk.
I'd have someone look at it for you. There is a good possibility you didn't lose your stuff. I thinks so too, I'm pretty much sure it's the power-supply! | |
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abierman said: superspaceboy said: Joking aside. External HD are the devil incarnate. You back all your stuff up and then poof it dies. I would take it in and see if it's just the case or the motor or something. Your Hard Disk maybe fine, but the case is junk.
I'd have someone look at it for you. There is a good possibility you didn't lose your stuff. I thinks so too, I'm pretty much sure it's the power-supply!That would be the first thing I'd look at. If it is truly the hard drive itself, I have another idea which I have tried and succeeded at. The hard drive in one of my computers went out, so I went and bought the exact same model off of eBay (cheap and used), swapped circuit boards on the thing (which I found to be the source of the problem), and plugged it back in. I wasn't able to recover the operating system functionality, but I was able to recover all the files off of it and transfer them to another drive. Fortunately, I didn't have to spend much on the 2nd drive since this was only a 40GB drive. However, comparing it to the $1000 they wanted at the local data recovery place, it was a steal! I then put the boards back onto their original drives, reformatted the recently purchased drive, and have been using that one ever since in that computer. Anyway, I'd install it as a slave drive in someone's desktop system and see if the drive is recognized. If it is, then all you need is another external enclosure. | |
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