External Hardrive problem

xw2lj9uspm1eyh

Hey guys,

Recently I've been having alot of trouble with my external hardrive.It's a Iomega 500gb usb powered eGo Hardrive.It's been recognised on my computer but when I click on it it's asking for the drive be formatted trouble is I have 400 gb of files on it and if I reformat it I'll lose everything.It happened a few days ago and a day or so after I tried managed to get on to the hardrive and managed to transfer 50gb worth of files over before it went again.

I've tried google and one of the suggestions was testdisk while it recognises the hardrive I tried transferring the sectors and it came back with errors.Is there anything else I can do?If I took into a technology repair store would they be able to recover it?It's a compact drive so don't think you can take it apart would it be expensive to recover all the files?The hardrive itself sounds fine so I dunno why it's acting up like this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,sorry mods if it's in the wrong place and happy new year to all .

smokiebeverage

Hi,

With externals it can be one of two things, either the disk itself or the SATA/IDE to USB circuit. If its the circuit a 20e new casing will sort the problem. If its the disk, you need to clone it sector by sector to another disk before the drive dies completely. Might be better to bring it someone to do it if you are not comfortable. The more you mess with it the less the chance you'll recover the data. If you are on the northside I can do it for you as a favor.

Cheers

mendusa wrote: »

Hey guys,

Recently I've been having alot of trouble with my external hardrive.It's a Iomega 500gb usb powered eGo Hardrive.It's been recognised on my computer but when I click on it it's asking for the drive be formatted trouble is I have 400 gb of files on it and if I reformat it I'll lose everything.It happened a few days ago and a day or so after I tried managed to get on to the hardrive and managed to transfer 50gb worth of files over before it went again.

I've tried google and one of the suggestions was testdisk while it recognises the hardrive I tried transferring the sectors and it came back with errors.Is there anything else I can do?If I took into a technology repair store would they be able to recover it?It's a compact drive so don't think you can take it apart would it be expensive to recover all the files?The hardrive itself sounds fine so I dunno why it's acting up like this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,sorry mods if it's in the wrong place and happy new year to all .

xw2lj9uspm1eyh

Thanks for the reply smokiebeverage,

Unfortunately I live in Limerick but thanks for the offer after reading your reply I think I better take it to someone who knows what they're doing as I haven't a notion about the terminology you used and you're right I been messing with it the last few days with no luck so it's something techy wrong with it.Hopefully it wont be too expensive .

smokiebeverage

For a full clone it shouldn't cost too much but you will have to buy a new HDD, in total it should only cost around e60 - e80 for the drive and e10 - e20 for the clone. The cloning is time consuming but it doesn't need any intervention so its usually cheap. Be warned though some companies charge mad money for file recovery even though 90% of the time its just a clone and a disk check. If you get stuck feel free to pm me and you could pop it in the post.

Happy new year

mendusa wrote: »

Thanks for the reply smokiebeverage,

Unfortunately I live in Limerick but thanks for the offer after reading your reply I think I better take it to someone who knows what they're doing as I haven't a notion about the terminology you used and you're right I been messing with it the last few days with no luck so it's something techy wrong with it.Hopefully it wont be too expensive .