External Hard Drive Died

[mossyboots]

Help!!


I have a WD Essentials external hard drive which seems to have died. I tried a new power cable but that makes no difference.

Can anyone tell me whether I can revive it and, if so, how. I have a massive amount of data (movies etc) on it, put together over many years and am distraught at the thought of losing it all.

Thanks.

 

[Corny]

you can try to open the case. quite often the usb controller just died and you can still connect the harddrive with either a new case, or directly to your pc.

 

[mossyboots]

Thanks, Corny.

I couldn't open the case but whilst trying to do so I noticed a button on the back of the case. I pressed it and plugged the hard drive in again. Hey presto, it worked. I am so happy - thanks for your help.

This is such a great forum - you guys are so helpful.

 

[GamerBear]

Glad to hear that it's working again. I just recently bought a WD 1TB portable hard drive and it doesn't have a power supply to it just plugs right in to the USB which is probably why it's slow with transferring files.

 

[FirmaFan]

HDs fail all the time. Always keep your data in more than one place!

 

[looseliam]

^ exactly.

Perhaps now would be a good time to make a backup plan.

 

[Ambrocious]

Mine died and it came back a few weeks later

Did you cut it's head off before it could bite you? Zombie hard drives are the worse...