- Jun 2, 2000
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I've got a USB2.0 HD enclosure I picked up on sale from CC a few months ago. It has been working great until last week and now I can no longer access the drive.
It has an older 40GB WD drive in it and it wouldn't shock me if the drive was dying. However, the drive spins up properly and I don't hear any kind of noise like clicking or slow spinup that would indicate a dying HD.
As soon as I turn the enclosure on, the new hardware icon appears near the clock so the computer recognizes the USB enclosure. Accessing the drive is extremely slow, and clicking on the drive letter in Explorer gives me a message saying "Error Accessing Drive".
The easiest thing would be to replace the HD and see if the problem persists and that's my next step.
But which device do you think is the problem -- the enclosure or the HD? I'm thinking it's the enclosure since the HD sounds OK, but then again, the computer recognizes the USB drive when it's powered on.
It has an older 40GB WD drive in it and it wouldn't shock me if the drive was dying. However, the drive spins up properly and I don't hear any kind of noise like clicking or slow spinup that would indicate a dying HD.
As soon as I turn the enclosure on, the new hardware icon appears near the clock so the computer recognizes the USB enclosure. Accessing the drive is extremely slow, and clicking on the drive letter in Explorer gives me a message saying "Error Accessing Drive".
The easiest thing would be to replace the HD and see if the problem persists and that's my next step.
But which device do you think is the problem -- the enclosure or the HD? I'm thinking it's the enclosure since the HD sounds OK, but then again, the computer recognizes the USB drive when it's powered on.