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Ex. Hard drive dead

Caine57

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Posted April 25, 2011 at 8:28PM

In the process of panicking over removing a fake spyware programme (see earlier post) I knocked over my 'Western Digital Elements 1TB External Hard Drive'. It now won't show up as a drive. the lights are on but the drive doesn't respond. Thankfully we have a second back up drive, but is that it? Its only a couple of months old! Are they that easy to damage? It fell from the top of the pc tower on to the floor. (pc tower is also on the ground)

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted April 25, 2011 at 8:56PM

Unlucky if drive is damage they do not like shocks such as a fall

If your lucky drive is OK but power system is damaged try removing drive from case and fit either direct to a spare sata port in your PC or by another case to put it in link text

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wee eddie

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 2:09AM

External Drives are a bit like babies.

Dropping them on the floor is not good but not always fatal, their age is irrelevant.

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