From: Ann Sanfedele
thanks Paul but...
his is all Greek to me no idea what you are talking about.. but this
is what I have....
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-3-5-Inch-Drive-ST305004FDA1E1-RK/dp/B000ND75C0
It was totally plug and play.
It doesnt look like anything comes apart.
The enclosure is probably designed so it can't be taken apart without
damaging the enclosure. But, inside the enclosure are some electronics
to handle the USB interface and a hard-drive.
You can take it to a computer shop and tell them you want to know if
it's the electronics in the housing that failed or the hard-drive
itself. Have them get the hard-drive out. They'll be able to test the
drive to see if it's still usable. And, if the hard-drive is still good,
they can put it into a new USB enclosure for you if you want them to.
What Paul's got is a USB hard-drive dock you can just plug a bare
hard-drive into to attach it to the computer. Makes them easy to swap out.
... something similar to this:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/disk-dock
That might work just as well as a new enclosure. Bare 500GB hard-drives
are available for around $40 each on the internet; 1TB drives are about
$50 & 1.5TB drives look to be around $70 each.
It might be a low cost solution for making more than one hard-drive copy
of your photographs. It'd take some back-and-forth to make duplicate
backups, but it's doable.
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