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

[Jeffrey Peck]

In what way did the drive stop functioning?  Will it mount at all?   
Can you hear it spin?  If you are using it with a Mac, can Disk  
Utility detect it?  Is the drive's enclosure hardware detected by the  
system at all (once again if this is a Mac, you can check in the  
System Profiler)?

- Jeff

On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:44 PM, David F. Farkas 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
> David
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