Is your external hard drive reliable?
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Mine was until i was basically forced to use it as an internal one. If you’re currently using a external hard drive and it decides to not work anymore then don’t just go and get angry that you lost everything because there is a high chance that you haven’t just as i found out earlier this week.
A while ago i was having troubles with my external hdd as it wasn’t being detected in windows, i tired it on my macbook pro and it wasn’t being picked up there either so finally i tried it on my virtual windows xp machine and nothing again. A friend told me i should look in the storage of the computer management area and it was there thankfully until i turned it off and then it was never seen again, so i thought i had lost everything (everything being about 240gb worth of files and information), the first thing i did was open it up and see if the connections were all ok and they were all fine. Next thing i did was browse on ebay for a ide to sata converter as my motherboard only has one ide slot and that is being used for my dvd drive, when i got the converter it still wasn’t being detected, not in my computer or in the BIOS so i was thinking that the hard drive itself had died on me.
After trying another hard drive with the converter well that one wasn’t being detected either so obviously the converter wasn’t working (yay wasted money!!!) so the last thing i tried was hooking my external drive up to the second ide slot on the ide cable itself to see if it would get detected and yes!!!! My external hard drive is now an internal one and the reason why it got broken is because well the case. The case that was on the drive just somehow stopped working but the drive itself is all fine and i still have all my files so i’m happy.
So if your external just stops working well try it as an internal drive and not just chuck it away cause then you really could have lost everything you had backed up. Just thought i’d give a little tip that also come with a story of mine…
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leftystrat
July 4th, 2008
at 10:08am
By the same token, those external drive cases can be a lifesaver. There’s nothing to them - plastic, power, and the interface. They are made to accommodate just about any hard drive.
If you have an internal drive or two that are getting full, you can always purchase an additional drive and put it in one of these cases. You hook it to the system via USB and VOILA - you have a new hard drive (this holds for any OS). You can also put the larger hd inside and case the smaller existing one.
It’s also very handy for testing other drives as well as data rescue work. There are a few gadgets out now to convert any type of interface to any other type (IDE,SATA).