Members LiveMusic Posted April 20, 2007 Members Share Posted April 20, 2007 Anyone have any idea whatsoever? I have a Simpletech 160gb external hard drive. My laptop only has usb1 (the drive supports it and usb2.) The external drive has worked before to where I could read it. Now, when I plug in the cable and try to read it to get a file, the hour glass keeps showing like it is reading. And I let it go for several minutes. Surely it's not trying to read every file on there, is it? Like, maybe 5gb to 10gb on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted April 20, 2007 Members Share Posted April 20, 2007 I had a western digital 160Gb external USB drive that went bad. It was out of warranty (one year....from the date of manufacture?!). They offer condolences and recommend some outrageously priced labs that can recover your data. I let it sit for a while, then one day when I had some time I cracked it open to discover (as I suspected) it's just a standard IDE drive attached to a USB interface. I put the drive into one of my computers and was happy to discover the drive worked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TimOBrien Posted April 20, 2007 Members Share Posted April 20, 2007 Simple troubleshooting: Try it on another computer. If it doesn't work, it's busted. If it works on another computer then it's your computer's fault. (see, it's simple logic to find computer faults, not magic....) P.S. All drives die. It's not a matter of IF but WHEN... they're just iron-oxide rust on an aluminum plate spinning at 300mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 That's what I would do as well. Did you contact Simpletech? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 Surely it's not trying to read every file on there, is it? Yes. Maybe it is. Maybe it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 Spinrite... Buy it, be happy...will fix damn near any disk problem... http://www.grc.com/intro.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 Surely it's not trying to read every file on there, is it? Yes. I've given this more thought. It certainly is. If it can't find an AUTORUN.INF then it will look at every file - unless AutoPlay is disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LiveMusic Posted April 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 Yes. Maybe it is. Maybe it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 Yer welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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