Well well well, after two years of use, my WD Elements 1.5TB external hard disk is slowly dying... Upon disassembling the case, I noticed a small burn mark on USB/SATA bridge chip....
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It all happened two days ago. After returning from a trip, I reconnected the disk via USB as usual but to my surprise, the drive would not appear under My Computer, while 'safely remove hardware' thing to the bottom right of the screen appears as usual. ...AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH... So after a short consultation with IT friends, I've decided to take the case apart, and connect the hard drive direct to the desktop. Several reboots and chkdsks later, the drive was recognised and appeared under my computer. But some files were still unreadable. Hence I did right click / tools / check for errors. To my surprise, most files are now recoverable.
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Before the trip, I accidentally turned off the computer without the usual proper shut down procedure while vacuuming my room (when the external disk was still connected and running) and that may have played part in a rather premature sort-of-death of the disk. Need to back up everything that's in the disk while it looks ok....
Price-wise, I can only afford to buy a WD Elements 2.0TB HDD at the moment...
Guess I'll be backing some important data on DVDs over the weekend....
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It all happened two days ago. After returning from a trip, I reconnected the disk via USB as usual but to my surprise, the drive would not appear under My Computer, while 'safely remove hardware' thing to the bottom right of the screen appears as usual. ...AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH... So after a short consultation with IT friends, I've decided to take the case apart, and connect the hard drive direct to the desktop. Several reboots and chkdsks later, the drive was recognised and appeared under my computer. But some files were still unreadable. Hence I did right click / tools / check for errors. To my surprise, most files are now recoverable.
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Before the trip, I accidentally turned off the computer without the usual proper shut down procedure while vacuuming my room (when the external disk was still connected and running) and that may have played part in a rather premature sort-of-death of the disk. Need to back up everything that's in the disk while it looks ok....
Price-wise, I can only afford to buy a WD Elements 2.0TB HDD at the moment...
Guess I'll be backing some important data on DVDs over the weekend....
