Re: [BCAB] Urgent!!! External Hard Drive Not Being Recognized Mobeen Iqbal 13 Nov 2012 00:37 GMT
yep, fair point. I must say though that the failear rate having recovered plenty of hard drives is a lot lower than the success rate, the majority of problems users report are easily solved. obviously if the drive's been dropped and is making horrible scraping/clanking noises its probably safe to say the thing's nackered. all the best, Mo. On 13/11/2012 00:21, Alex Stone wrote: > It could be, but in my experience, it usually isn't. > Cheers > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bcab [mailto:bcab-bounces@lists.bcab.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mobeen Iqbal > Sent: 13 November 2012 00:05 > To: BCAB Discussion List > Subject: Re: [BCAB] Urgent!!! External Hard Drive Not Being Recognized > > Hi Ger. > > chances are your hard drive's fine. try a different USB port and > different USB cable if you can. it could be a faulty drive enclosure. I > supply a disk recovery service. I used to work for a recycling company > and i still have the equipment we used to use to recover hard drives. I > can run some diagnostics on the drive for you and try and trace the > fault. If needs be i can supply a replacement drive with your data in > tact, or supply a replacement enclosure. My background is system > building, electronics hardware and networking. Please feel free to email > me off list, > > mobeeniqbal@gmail.com > > and we'll try to figure this out! > > all the best, > > Mo. > > > On 12/11/2012 23:59, Gerard Sadlier wrote: >> Hi all >> >> My external hard drive is not being recognized on my computer at all. >> >> I will try it on another machine tomorrow. >> >> However, I have a lot of data on it, including some I really need >> ASAP, so if anyone could tell me how to fix this problem without >> formatting the disk, I'd really appreciate it. >> >> I should say that the drive seems fine. It runs normally when plugged >> in on my usb. At least the hard drive is spinning normally. Nor have I >> done anything to the drive, which is quite new. >> >> Please help on this one if you can! >> >> Ger >>