I have had this hard drive for about a year now and it has been nothing but problematic. I reformatted like 4 months ago to ntcc as was advised it would make it more stable... It was great until a few days ago where it stopped working all together. When I plug it in it will either say my computer won't detect it or it will appear in my computer as local disk e but won't allow me to use anything on it or even to reformat it again so that I can use it. Please help as it had a tb worth of stuff on there that I've now lost access to!!!
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The bad news is that I think you have a bad drive. There's not much you can really do. A few little
things that you might try as a last ditch effort are make sure your USB connection is good use a good quality cable and hook up the drive to the back USB instead of the front this may help.
If the drive comes back alive try to backup your stuff right away. I wouldn't do this in very large
blocks and back up the most important stuff first. doing mass transfers of data can stress this drive even more.
If its a software problem, say some kind of malware is causing the problem get a copy of Linux Mint
and see if it will mount the drive. If its a malware problem Linux shouldn't be affected by it. Linux Mint is a Live Version that can be run from a CD-ROM and has all the tools to mount NTFS filesystems. and transfer data between them.
If a drive goes bad it usually gives signs it will click and whir continually with a funny rythym. If this
isn't happening then the drive may be good and the USB controller may be bad. If this is the case
the encased drive can be reomoved and unplugged from the USB controller and plugged into and
external hard drive cable or adapter.
If worse comes to worse one of your local computer repair shops may do data recovery BUT it can
be very expensive. If its your family picture album, your bands demo the've been working on for a year then going this route may be an option but backing up roms, mp3's and movies and such
will probably cost you more than its worth.
If your using a terabyte drive and using most of it you might want to consider usb 3.0 or
eSATA. Both are much much faster. Youll probably need to buy an adapter for your computer
but if your transfering this much style="display:none;">If your using a terabyte drive and using most of it you might want to consider usb 3.0 or eSATA. Both are much much faster. Youll probably need to buy an adapter for your computer but if your transfering this much data it will be worth it. If you go eSATA don't hotplug it even if it says you can.