On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:39 -0700, "Mark Cassino" <markcass...@ymail.com> wrote: > I had 5 of these 500 gb My Books drives and they generally worked well. > One > drive failed and took it to a local shop and they pulled the drive and > put it in > a generic enclosure - worked fine with no problems. The generic enclosure > didn't > cost more than $25 IIRC. So - you might want to just back up the flaky > drive and > have it put in a new enclosure. If it still has problems then the drive > itself > is flaky and you may as well just get rid of it or relegate it to just > data > transfers or something. Otherwise, like mine, it may work fine. > > I have since upgraded to a couple of 3TB drives and 2 of the 500 GB drives > to > have two copies of everything - and I drop off one set of thethe drives > at a > local computer shop that has their own data center every few months to > archive > everything remotely. > > > The remaining My Books are not getting much use - they join the 200 gb > drives > etc that are big enough to be useful to too small to be valuable... > > Good luck- -- >
Thanks, Mark. I backed up the My Book a month or two back, so there's nothing there now that's unrecoverable. I'll try out the suggestions offered by you and others to see if the drive can be restored. In the meantime, I'll just use it for temporary storage. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> > To: pdml@pdml.net > Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 8:56:56 PM > Subject: RE: OT - Hard Disk Oddity > > From: "Brian Walters" > > G'day all > > > > For several months one of my external hard drives has been acting a bit > > 'flaky'. > > > > The drive is permanently attached to the PC but when the computer boots > > there is no sign of the drive in Windows Explorer. However, after about > > 10-15 minutes, the autoplay window magically appears and the operating > > system reads the drive, which then becomes available. The drive > > continues to work properly thereafter - until the next boot when the > > process starts over again. > > > > My question is whether the hard disk itself is on the way to hard disk > > hell or whether the drive controller is likely to be the culprit. Or > > could it be a faulty USB cable? Would it be worth extracting the drive > > from its case and try installing it in a new case? The drive is about > > three and a half years old. > > > > Note that I'm not relying on this drive as a primary back up any more, > > but it is convenient if it keeps working. And I'm just curious as to > > why the drive would be behaving like this. > > > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
