On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Valter Prahlad <valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > Il giorno 08/09/13 04.45, "Cliff Rediger" ha scritto: > > Sometimes, though, a drive can be dead with no previous sign. >
As an admittedly quite large digression, I would that this is probably the typical failure case for the current generations of SSDs. I had an Intel 330 that worked fine for 6 months or so. One day, it was just dead. Completely dead. Thank &deity, Intel replaced it under warranty. I had a backup, but unfortunately it was a month or so old. No unrecoverable losses since I tend to keep my data on drives separate from the drive the OS is on. But a sudden death experience like that tends to bring one back into the flock of the church of regular, scheduled backups. Good luck with your Seagate. If it were me, the first thing I would try to check is whether the drive appears to power on and spin up its platters. If it does, then listen for "weird noises" as Valter suggested. Hopefully it may just be your enclosure. -irrational john -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
