BlueMak

Freeagent Pro 1TB. About 900GB in it. I noticed it was off when I woke up, the rest of the system is on. I tried it switch it on, nothing.
I removed the power, replugged it in, it switched on, head two or three times the noise that makes when you turn it on (the head?), not immediately one after the other, more like 10 sec apart. Then it switched off.

Suggestions? I do NOT want to lose what I have there.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

anonemus

Tried using different USB cable?

gadabout

Well... if you are not worried about the warranty I would suggest taking the drive out of the enclosure. The same thing happened to my ext. My Book WD 500GB drive. For me, my drive was working fine till I turned off my computer to rearrange some things. The drive has an auto-off feature. When I turned on the system again the drive would not power on. It did have a power button but the lights would flash on then off again. So I decided that the info on the drive was more valuable than the warranty. I broke the casing and removed the drive. It's now been running as an internal drive just fine.

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BlueMak

I tried different power cable/supply because I have a second same drive. Same thing. Now I tried the other one's usb cable and it seems to be working. I feel so much better now. I can't copy everything, but I will the important stuff and see if I can find such a cable.

But, how could the cable go wrong when it wasn't even being used over the night? No one touched it or anything either.

gadabout I thought about doing that, that was close.

thank you guys.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

anonemus

USB data cable do degrade over time. I guess its the connector. Wish there was a USB data cable with latch, like that of the newer SATA cables..

Mac Daddy

Yep they do degrade over time like everything else ... BlueMak glad ya got it sorted

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gadabout

Sweet that you got it sorted it. I only wish it was that easy for me at the time haha. My drive had USB and firewire connectors.

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ATI MSI RX3870 OC Edition PCI-E 2.0
Windows 7 64bit

BlueMak

Mine has usb, firewire and esata, but I only hve the usb calbes with me.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

i've got the esata cable with me.... but it is strange the usb cable would just mess up like that

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BlueMak

Indeed.

all I know is that when next month I move back to Greece, I will go and buy a few hundrend DVDs to make copies. Or in the remote chance I have money, buy either a blue ray recorder or a iomega rev (if I win the lottery).

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

comp_ali

why don't you buy another hdd for backup instead , I think it is cheaper than buying BR-Drive + Discs or DVDs

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BlueMak

Because I don't want to wake up every day thinking that my data is dead.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

i setup a machine with 2 internal 500gb seagate 7200.11's with a freeagent pro 500gb seagate with esata.... and set all drives to mirror.....

with the ICHxR intel raid controller, occasionally unplugging the esata external drive, while presenting a raid mirror problem for that drive, plugging it in.. and waiting about an hour or so while working would rebuild that drive without having to do anything at all...

it's a good backup system

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anonemus

@ Blue -- your USB data cable has the standard size on one end, and mini-USB connector on the other end, right? I'm guessing the mini-connector is more fragile...

Judas

actually i've found the mini connectors to be far more robust as they are smaller components that are quite hard to destroy, where as the more fragile and not as reinforced standard usb end can be damaged quite easily presented with enough abuse.

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blown503

I know this is crazy but you need to back your most important stuff up to a dvd as well. One of these days you will loose everything on your hard drive, and you wont be happy. Hard drives fail all the time. Maybe even a ssd would be a smart choice as well as they can withstand a fall from your hand to the floor.

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Judas

imo flash drive...... critical components saved there.. the newer 16gb or larger drives are relatively cheap and fast

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BlueMak

I prefer to save the data on audio tapes than flash drives.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Tipstaff

I prefer to commit everything to memory. 'Course, if my memory goes, then I'm f***ed.

... What was I saying, again? Oh yeah. Backup everything to something or you'll have nothing.

Now where did I put my marbles?

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Cow_160483

Not a bad idea for really important documents that's what i do save all my important docs on a 4gb flash !

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BlueMak

I have seen flash drives dying easier than a fly in a snowstorm. I don't know why people consider them safe.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

i see cheap flash drives dieing... but i've YET to have a single OCZ flash drive die... and i've been using them since the 1gb models showed up...

the 8gb model that i paid nearly 150+ dollars for because it was so new, (now you can get for like 25 or whatever) hasn't given me a lick of issues

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comp_ali

I have 4 GB one and it more than impressive, never had an issue although I am using it very much in transferring documents and stuff between me and my friend for over a year. It is A-Data one
A-DATA Technology

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comp_ali

If you are interested enough , you may like this one.
YouTube - Weekend Project: Flash Memory Hard Drive

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BlueMak

There is no way in hell I will use flash drives for back ups, so, no need for that.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Tyrsonswood

Neat project......

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BlueMak

Am I missing something? Only thing he did was ruin a HD and change the case of a USB Hub to look like a 3.5" hard drive.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

awe i was hopeing for a way they were able to use the orginal IDE controller to read the flash drives for older machines.....

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Tyrsonswood

I didn't say "amazing project" just that it was neat....... to each his own.

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Judas

it is neat

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