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External HDD Problem
10-02-2014 3:07 PM
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Message comes up on Windows 7..."Device driver software was not installed correctly".
All other USB devices install ok and this message has only appeared in the last week. The led on the Drive is on and I can feel that the disk is spinning.
I Guess I know the answer to the question I am going to ask.........is the Disk drive failing ? But is there anything else it would be useful for me to check out before throwing it out.?
Re: External HDD Problem
10-02-2014 3:09 PM
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At any given moment in the universe many things happen. Coincidence is a matter of how close these events are in space, time and relationship.
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Re: External HDD Problem
10-02-2014 3:11 PM
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10-02-2014 3:35 PM
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Even if something has failed, it is likely that there is a standard internal SATA disk inside the enclosure. Chances are that the failure will be in the USB to SATA controller inside the enclosure.
The SATA disk can be removed and used internally, or transplanted to a different enclosure. It may need formatting though, depending upon how big it is (e.g. >3TB disks will have some clever tricks built into the USB-SATA chip in order to present such a large disk to older operating systems).
Re: External HDD Problem
10-02-2014 3:44 PM
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Quote from: CX Even if something has failed, it is likely that there is a standard internal SATA disk inside the enclosure. Chances are that the failure will be in the USB to SATA controller inside the enclosure.
This.
It's quite common to hera of the usb -> SATA hardware failing inside usb HDDs. Just take the drive out and pop it directly into the PC or another usb enclosure and the HDD itself should be alright.
Re: External HDD Problem
10-02-2014 4:24 PM
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19-02-2014 2:12 PM
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Quote from: 7up It's quite common to hera of the usb -> SATA hardware failing inside usb HDDs. Just take the drive out and pop it directly into the PC or another usb enclosure and the HDD itself should be alright.
Exactly what happened to an old Maxtor drive I had that one day decided not to work anymore.
I could hear the drive spinning up and sometimes the drive would be recognised when pluged in, only to be unrecognised a short time later.
Broke open the case. Stripped out the drive and put it into a cheapo £3 ebay usb enclosure and now fully working again.
Re: External HDD Problem
22-02-2014 4:04 PM
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22-02-2014 4:12 PM
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To be honest I have already transferred all the important stuff to a New Hard drive and I have a couple of very old hard drives which might work in the caddy if it does turn out to be the Drive.
look at the feedback on Amazon as most makes of the well known drives show a number of users reporting failures or other problems and awarding one star ratings.
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22-02-2014 6:10 PM
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USB thumb drives I think are great but not the HDDs. Although I do have two usb HDDs I don't use either a great deal. One is plugged into the router and the other one is used very rarely to back up the one plugged into the router.
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22-02-2014 6:49 PM
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Quote from: ejs Certain Seagate drives
I work next to our sysadmin and I think the 'S' word is a swear word
Even seen them change the controller boards between different (identical model) HD's. Sometimes it works, other times not.
Re: External HDD Problem
06-03-2014 11:14 AM
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Not sure it was the USB/SATA hardware that was the problem, though as all the drives connected fine, they just became unreadable and had to be re-formatted in order to be useable again.
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06-03-2014 2:59 PM
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I have.
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06-03-2014 3:08 PM
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07-03-2014 1:12 AM
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So I have to provide a USB stick or CD to provide a bootable PC.
It's not possible to use the native OS because its active - and in an unknown state.
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