[Novalug] Opening a 200GB Acom Data case
Rob Payne
rnspayne@the-paynes.com
Fri Jan 25 17:05:05 EST 2013
Alan,
I would suggest, to anyone with drive problems like you describe, that
you remove the drive from the enclosure and buy a copy of SpinRite
(from grc.com) to run on the drive. SpinRite runs from a bootable CD,
though it also will run from a USB stick, on PC hardware and attempt
to fix the drive. It does about everything that can be done (by
software) to recover data on the drive.
I have no association with grc.com, except as a customer.
Rob
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:04:03AM -0500, W Alan Day wrote:
> A 200GB Acom Data external drive stopped working for me a while back --
> it was my backup drive. It had worked previously without any indication
> of a problem. One day I tried to use it & it wouldn't come up on either
> the USB 2.0 or Firewire interface. I've tried different USB cables that
> work elsewhere but only have the one Firewire cable.
>
> I'd like to open up the case to see if any obvious mechanical issue
> (loose connector, etc.) could be resolved. Otherwise, I want to remove
> the disks for secure disposal/recycling.
>
> I could bring it to the 8 February meeting if there is one -- just
> checked the NovaLUG site & there is none scheduled yet.
> Alan
>
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