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Sepulfuras · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:49 am Post subject: External Hard Drive

Hey guys,
Straight to the point here, my external Western Digital 1.5TB Hard drive is no longer working. I mean, it shows up in in my computer and such but it hands in loading.
Here's a pic.

When I unplug it a message pops saying I have to format it, however, obviously, the hard disk isn't even plugged in anymore. Any ideas, guys?

-Sep

Edit: If I try formatting it, it just hangs. I can't use tools like the "disk management" thing because it just doesn't load, it stays a blank screen. However if I unplug the hard drive, everything loads up instantly.
2ndEdit: I've tried using tools for recovery like "getdatarecovery" and such. However, once again, it just hangs on "Scanning for drives". I can't right-click the drive in question either because once again, it hangs and my computer freezes up and windows explorer crashes. I've also tried chkdsk on the drive and it just hangs. Everything I do in relation to the drive usually ends up hanging and dying :/

SFP+ · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:24 am Post subject:

Either the disk cabinet is broken or the hard drive itself. Take your hdd out of the case and plug it straight into the computer. If it's still faulty then hdd is broken, if it works buy a new disk cabinet.

Sepulfuras · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:19 am Post subject:

Thanks Safko.
It's appearing in disk management now at the least however it says it's unallocated. Which is, I'm assuming, short for "format it".
Which, like I said in the original post, I'd like to avoid. Is there another way of giving it a drive letter or something?

atom0s · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:58 am Post subject:

Perhaps your USB drivers are fucked and it's not getting enough power to fully spin? (Or possibly the cable.) Try the drive in your other ports as well as another machine to rule out anything of that sort.

SFP+ · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:16 am Post subject:

Sepulfuras · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:03 am Post subject:

Don't worry about it, and I plugged it in internally.
At this point I'm just trying to recover data off of the drive.
56 hours to go..

Cryoma · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:45 am Post subject:

If you do replace it I recommend WD My Passport.

Sepulfuras · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject:

That's what I have, haha. It's only 2 years old at this point.
Edit: Whoops, those are the portable ones, right? I had the my book I think it was called.

atom0s · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:05 am Post subject:

I have a MyPassport and it has issues staying powered on depending on the machine its plugged into. I wouldn't really recommend them.

Sepulfuras · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:33 am Post subject:

That feel..

"Quick-scan"
Lol..

SFP+ · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:13 am Post subject:

What progrma are you using if I'm allowed to ask?

Sepulfuras · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:22 am Post subject:

It's called "MiniTool Power Data Recovery".
Not sure if it's good or not, but it was the easiest to use.

Edit: Well I just had a power outage, and now I'm back at step 1 Smile

Anyone know of any recovery programs that kind of show what files it's managing to find.
I just want my photos, which is about 100-200 megs of the actual drive. I don't care about anything else.

Radiation · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject:

Acronis Disk Director Home is very good. I was able to recover files from a partition which my windows xp failed to read but worked completely fine with windows 7. Give it a shot.

Sepulfuras · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:30 am Post subject:

Acronis is giving it a scan right now, hopefully it can be a little quicker than the previous tool I used.

Cryoma · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Has worked really well for me in the past.