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Hard drive not working, what can I do? What do you think happened?

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vtohthree

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I originally had my hard drive in my USB 2.0 enclosure for data storage. Then I got this message:

"F:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed beacause of an I/O device error."

Basically, I couldn't access my drive, I'd get this error message if I attmped to seek/open anything in the drive, in fact, as stated, I couldn't even access the drive. As far as noises go, it would read for a split sec, then pause, then read for a split sec, then pause again, it would do this repeatidly until I got the message above.

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PART 2 (I posted the above in another thread last week)

Many suggested taking out the HDD and plugging in my PC via IDE and trying to access it from there. Unfortunately it did not work and reacted similarly, it would make the same noises and beats...then I'd get a message a long the lines of:

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

Then asks me to click on "yes" or "no".

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So, what happened? Any simple solution to this? What can I do to save this thing? Unfortunately, I put some pretty crucial things on that drive the day before it died and I didn't get a chance to back it up in a DVD archive.

I know there's this thing, in which you can dig through the drive in MS-DOS if the info hasn't been written over yet. Any one have any guides to this? I mainly want to save a bunch of home vidoes and family pictures, very dear to me. Along with a few documents I have been working on.



 
oh boy, I don't have a whole lotta money to blow on this. The thing is, it seems to read normally as soon as it turns on, but only for a little moment, then it starts doing its rhythms(no nasty noises, just that it reads for a sec, then pauses, then kicks in again, over and over and over).

an I/O error, surely there is another way to attempt to access the info on here?
 
Offhand, it sounds like some platter or head damage.

I've seen a LOT higher failure rate of hard drives in USB external housings than in permanent (PC) mounting. I don't know if it's an overheating issue or mechanical damage to the drives from transporting or jarring.
 
Originally posted by: techmanc
have you tried the seagate diagnostics software to check the drive ?
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No, I haven't, but I will try it, I bought a seagate drive before... but the hard drive that's in question is a Maxtor.
 
ahhh I saw your specs listed and assumed it was a seagate drive you were have a problem with. use the powermax software from maxtor then
 
Have you tried the freezer trick? Stick in sealed static bag, put in freezer for a few hours, connect to PC and if you get access to the HD copy data ASAP!
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Have you tried the freezer trick? Stick in sealed static bag, put in freezer for a few hours, connect to PC and if you get access to the HD copy data ASAP!
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Are you serious?
 
Originally posted by: stu1811
Originally posted by: vtohthree
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Have you tried the freezer trick? Stick in sealed static bag, put in freezer for a few hours, connect to PC and if you get access to the HD copy data ASAP!
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Are you serious?
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Yes
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For what it was worth I did it. Didn't do anything, same as if it hadn't been in the freezer, except condensation began to build up around the drive as it was thawing. =P
 
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