Hard drive broken? Oh no--please help! I'm so worried...

[sunnysky]

I'm so worried. I don't know what to do. I have a Maxtor One Touch III mini hard drive, which I've been using for the past two years or so. It was working fine just a few days ago, but just today, I plugged it into my computer and nothing appeared. I went to "My Computer" and there was nothing--no sign of any hard drive. Then my computer froze, so I shut it down and plugged the hard drive into another computer. Same thing. Plugged it into my 3rd computer, and nothing except strange clicking sounds coming from the hard drive.

Oh my g...I'm seriously worried...I have years of photo and important data that I cannot bear to lose!!

Can someone help me? Anything I can do? Is the hard drive broken (nightmare come alive)? Can it be fixed?

Thanks so much!

[xavier]

Sounds like the drive is toast

[pcjoseph1974]

you could try a new usb cord. Also, External USB drives are simply a internal drive in a USB drive enclosure. I once had a CD rom do something similar and I took the drive out of the case and made it a internal drive and it works fine to this day. Maybe the usb interface on the drive is broke and not the drive itself.

[pcjoseph1974]

I dont know much about that drive though

[patio]

If you are sure the clicking is from the external HDD STOP using it immediately if you want any chance of recovering that data...

[xavier]

You are hearing the click of death [harddrive]

[Hutson Ventures]

Did you ever figure out your HD issue ? If not let me know I may be able to help.

Thank you, Adam


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