External hardrive not reading
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Topic: External hardrive not reading
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Subject: External hardrive not reading
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 11:33pm
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hiya went to plug my external hardrive in the orther day and it woulndt read  it is powering up the blue line light is lighting up so i tryed about 4-5 times and manged to get it to read with no probs with all the mp3's on it right now went to plug it in today and cant get it to read now but ive only tryed a about 2 times bcus i want to go a buy another one just in case it will work so i can copy all files to a new one.. going to see the pc geezer up my road as he is pretty good and build pcs ect in his shop see what he says is this the end of all my mp3's? it's a 500gb and got about 200gb of files on it, killa blow to me man if ive lost all these mp3s can the data be retrieved? thanks ------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE 
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Posted By: shagnasty
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 11:47pm
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Don't mess with it, if you value the stuff get someone who knows there stuff to sort it. Everytime you power it up you risk everything. I can recover most HDDs, PM me if you want it copied... |
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 5:14pm
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Thanks shag for the repley much appreciated. and yes i took it up the pc geezer today and he rekons he can retrieve the data he said it might something to do with the Voltage thingy on pc board of the Data Lead no quite sure what he said..sorry but he recons he can take the internal HDD out and re-house it and repair it...not till thursday tho will let you now and you was correct about the powering it up all, this is bad idea he said too so hopefully he can sort it.. also he said it a bad idea how im using it , he says thay are ment to be plugged in all the time, i only plug it in when i want to use it, any opinion on the? really hope it can repair it cheers again shag..
 ------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE
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Posted By: kevinmcdonough
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 6:09pm
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look at a program called Spinrite (www.grc.com) its supposed to be a preventative mantenence program for hard drives that you run every so often to stop it dying and bad sectors forming etc, but its also got a frighteningly good reputation for bringing unreadable drives back from the dead and rescuing people's data. and in terms of use, he's kind of correct. there is an argument that can be made that leaving a hard disk running for long periods is better than stopping and starting it all the time (i.e. leaving it switched on all day and just shutting it down when you know your not gonna be using it for an extended period rather than starting and shutting it down a load of times in one day). however whats far worse is just the physical moving it about and the way people normally treat them when its an external drive. because its "portable" drive and you can unplug it and throw it in a bag, people generally forget that these are actually fairly delicate things with lots of moving parts inside of them,. ALL hard disks will fail at some point eventually as the moving parts eventually fail (hence why back ups are important) but treating them roughly is going to make that happen far quicker, and lead to damaged sectors and things that make it not boot or loose data. k |
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Date Posted: 09 April 2013 at 12:31am
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thanks for the repley kevinmac Interesting.. true about throwing them around so to say , mine just sat of top of my pc tower never moved also its alright saying we need a back up but then we need a back up of the back up nothing is safe  do we need to buy about 5 external drives and keep a lot of copies this has made me realise now that all your data can be gone in a flash thanks ------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE
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