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External Hard drive Borked?
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Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
Thanks in advance.
I've got an I/O Magic 250GB hard drive. Today I tried to connect it to my PC, and was unable to access it, after which I noticed the lights on the HD were off. I restarted the PC, and noticed that the HD was making a sound like you'd hear if you dropped a marble on a wood floor from an inch off the ground. So, click-bounce-bounce, followed by a beep.
This doesn't look good.
Is my data salvageable?
I've got an I/O Magic 250GB hard drive. Today I tried to connect it to my PC, and was unable to access it, after which I noticed the lights on the HD were off. I restarted the PC, and noticed that the HD was making a sound like you'd hear if you dropped a marble on a wood floor from an inch off the ground. So, click-bounce-bounce, followed by a beep.
This doesn't look good.
Is my data salvageable?
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It sounded ridiculous to me, but it ended up working just long enough to transfer everything off the drive. As it warmed back up he said it got increasingly slower until it died again.