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chaz47

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: External HD not reading, or reading with data loss. |
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| My 250gb Samsung external HD seems to have just quit working on me. It's only had a service record of about a year. And, it just had a 6 week vacation. Any advice on recovering the data? |
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laserprinter

Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi

Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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www.google.com
and ive heard that putting a busted drive in the freezer works also...no shit, look it up - only if its more head or arm failures or something though....be pretty classic if it gets you your data though. |
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Demophobe

Joined: 17 May 2004
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Yep. |
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chaz47

Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Now the thing isn't even being detected by my PC. It must be a USB issue with the device.
a wee bit later..................................................
freaky deaky.
It looks like it was a conflict between another USB device. I just bought a webcam/mic yesterday. I unplugged that and the drive works fine. Oddness.
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