So I have a friend with a usb/esata external hard drive (western digital). One day when it was plugged in via usb (and he was running linux off it at the time) he accidentally pulled the usb cable out. Of course this resulted in a corrupt mbr, etc.
Now here is the part I don't understand. The hard drive seems to have completely failed. It is giving off the click of death and can rarely be detected at all. Perhaps I'm just ignorant of the dangers of accidentally disconnecting the data cable, but shouldn't this have merely resulted in data loss/corruption? Is it really capable of killing a hard drive completely?
Now here is the part I don't understand. The hard drive seems to have completely failed. It is giving off the click of death and can rarely be detected at all. Perhaps I'm just ignorant of the dangers of accidentally disconnecting the data cable, but shouldn't this have merely resulted in data loss/corruption? Is it really capable of killing a hard drive completely?
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