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Panic mode: HD not working
DmonHiro:
1. Do NOT write anything on the disk.
2. Check the connector cable. Use a different cable and see if it works.
3. If 2 fails, try to connect the HDD to the PC INTERNALLY.
Step 3 worked for me last week in the exact same situation as yours.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: DmonHiro on January 25, 2012, 09:46:39 PM ---1. Do NOT write anything on the disk.
2. Check the connector cable. Use a different cable and see if it works.
3. If 2 fails, try to connect the HDD to the PC INTERNALLY.
Step 3 worked for me last week in the exact same situation as yours.
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1.) already done (duh, hes been doing it since first post)
2.) its connected to the pc internally after disassembling the external enclosure.
3.) duh?
question: did you just skip the whole thread?
Lupin:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on January 16, 2012, 09:46:56 PM ---So I have my external WD hard drive 1 TB. . .prolly 600 GB full of anime. . . anyways suddenly it stopped working. . .it started by slowing down. . .after a while it would sometimes freeze when I browsed tru the folders and suddenly now it wants to reformat cause I cant use it if I dont format it first. . .so I took it out of the enclosure and put it into my PC, now . . .I know theres 600 GB of anime in there. . .and Im in the disk manager on windows, and it shows 930 GB unallocated space. . .I can add a "new simple volume" with the max capacity but . . .Im afraid if I do that it will reformat the drive and erase all my info which I am too scared to do. . .
I could try one of those data-recovery programs but I dont have anywhere to store 600 GB of data. . .
any takers?
Im in a little state of panic TBH
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Is that external drive a My Book? A WD Elements? Is it encrypted?
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: Lupin on January 26, 2012, 08:23:53 AM ---
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on January 16, 2012, 09:46:56 PM ---So I have my external WD hard drive 1 TB. . .prolly 600 GB full of anime. . . anyways suddenly it stopped working. . .it started by slowing down. . .after a while it would sometimes freeze when I browsed tru the folders and suddenly now it wants to reformat cause I cant use it if I dont format it first. . .so I took it out of the enclosure and put it into my PC, now . . .I know theres 600 GB of anime in there. . .and Im in the disk manager on windows, and it shows 930 GB unallocated space. . .I can add a "new simple volume" with the max capacity but . . .Im afraid if I do that it will reformat the drive and erase all my info which I am too scared to do. . .
I could try one of those data-recovery programs but I dont have anywhere to store 600 GB of data. . .
any takers?
Im in a little state of panic TBH
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Is that external drive a My Book? A WD Elements? Is it encrypted?
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it was a Western Digital MyBook
and it wasnt encripted
Lupin:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on January 27, 2012, 06:21:04 AM ---it was a Western Digital MyBook
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This is some very late advice but I think a possible solution to the issue was to connect the drive to another My Book enclosure (that have similar firmware). If I'm not mistaken, drive encryption is hardwired to the enclosure. Even though you didn't use encryption, it still encrypts data it writes to the drive. That's why you don't see anything when you connected the internal drive to your computer. Odds are you had a broken enclosure and a corrupted partition table.
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