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Did my hard drive die? Any solutions to this?

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vtohthree

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So I have an enclosure with a 120GB(maxtor) hdd in it. I've used it for quite some time, about 2 years or so(had the drive for longer but didn't use it much).

Anyways long story short, last night I hooked it up to my laptop and it wouldn't open up, shows that the drive exists but when I double click the icon I get this exact message:

"F:\ is not accessible.

The request could not be performed beacause of an I/O device error."



Am I screwed? Or can something else be done to salvage my precious data?




 
Originally posted by: milnerw
You tried taking it out of the usb enclosure and putting a normall ide cable in it ?
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About to do that next, but I figured if someone had some insight into the error and could give me some input as to whether or not I should bother.
 
Sounds like the USB bridge card may have failed, but the drive might be fine. Did you at least try it in different ports on the laptop?
 
And, I assume that it is independently powered when you connect to the laptop's USB port or ports?
 
To the two responses above, yes I did try different USB ports, and Yes, it is independantly powered by a power supply (3.5'').

And unfortunately no, I haven't stuck it in my desktop yet via IDE cable, will get to it this weekend.
 
I've gotten that error trying to recover data from a drive that I knew was going bad. I had it piggybacked on another pc and got that error while trying to access certain parts of the disk
 
Originally posted by: drum
I've gotten that error trying to recover data from a drive that I knew was going bad. I had it piggybacked on another pc and got that error while trying to access certain parts of the disk
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DITTO!!!

Yeah I piggybacked it on to my PC via IDE. Still doesn't work, this time after I try to open the disk, it takes a long time, then I get the prompt a long the lines of....

"This drive has not been formatted yet, would you like to format now?

yes......no.."



So, uh yeah..it doesn't work. It doesn't make any unusual noises, however it is acting up, when trying to accessed it does it in a beat...reads for a bit, pauses, then reads for a big, then pauses, etc... doesn't stream through like it should/used to.

Are my hopes taken up yet? Any way I can salvage/save this stuff through MS-DOS?
 
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