[Hidden-tech] So sad... USB Drive died...

[Kiernan G-S]

David,

Have you removed the hard drive from the box and plugged it directly
into a computer?

Sometimes a drive will work better connected directly to an IDE or
SATA cable, also sometimes the external enclosures fail.

The key to backup in general is redundancy.  An external hard drive
should never be the only place you are storing data.  It should be a
double of data that is somewhere else.

~Kiernan

Head Technician - Green Earth Computers
www.greenearthcomputers.us
Kiernan at gmail.com
413-282-TECH

Membership Coordinator - Worlds Apart Games
www.worldsapartgames.org



On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David F. Farkas <david at farkas.com> wrote:
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> Hi folks...
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> Once again I must mourn the death of a hard disk... this time a Maxtor External USB drive. However I would rather not mourn the loss of the data.
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> Anyone have a quick, easy, very cheap suggestion for data recovery from a Maxtor IDE drive? It's a 200GB drive but probably no more than a few Gb of data.
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> Never understand how a drive that has so little read/write activity and is sitting on a shelf so it is never bumped, would die so fast. (4 years?) I know that's typical duty cycle, but it runs in almost ideal condition. <sigh> I guess I need a small NAS RAID box, eh?
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> Thanx
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