Did you use the same USB cable on the 80 gig? If not, try a different
USB cable on the 500.
Is it getting power? Could be a bad power supply.
Do you know anyone who runs Linux? Take the drive to them and see if a
Linux box will recognize it. If it will, you should be able to use the
Linux box to transfer the files to a new drive. Make sure the new drive
is formatted to NTFS.
If all else fails you can try transferring the drive to a new enclosure
as Paul suggested. I've had the enclosures go bad and produce error
messages with a perfectly good drive inside.
-p
On 1/22/2011 10:04 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
My 500 gig external harddrive crashed tonight... guess where all my
recent digital photos are?
This happened after I loaded PEF's onto it a couple of hours ago... a
couple of weird things happned... the PEntax Lab thing said there was
a loading error.
I know its not the USB port because I was able to attach my 80 gig
external to it and use it.
WHen I plug in the drive it says USB DEVICE NOT RECOGNIZED...and says
the divice has malfunctioned.
aarrrgggh!
Never had a drive crash on me before ...
I connected it to the old puter to see if I could revive it but no,
nothing...
WHen I goto the trouble shooting page it tells me I should try and
reconnect it (duh) and if that doesnt work "REPLACE THE DEVICE"
the device is a Seagate free agent 500 gig drive I got as a present
in 2007. All my photos from the last two years are on there
The C drive was getting crowded most everything I need is on the
external drive.
I sthis going to cost me a fortune to save it? is it possible there
is just a driver I need to reload?
Hugs along with info would be much appreciated
ann sad
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