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by abee_here 1 view

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I had purchased a maxtor external harddrive in Nov 2005. It has now conked off. I have loads of data on the drive, which I would not like to lose. What do I do next?

Can this be fixed at home? I have some knowledge of assembling PC's.

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by robo_dev

Typically it is just an IDE drive in a housing, which can be removed in case the USB controller/connection is the problem.

What are the symptoms?

Can you hear the drive spinning? Any unusual noises (ie Screeeeeeeeee, ker-chunk, ker chunk, ker-chunk, sound of motor slowing down/speeding up)

by widdle_koukla

hi.... i own an external hard drive that recently started doing this....i was told that the hard drive is broken and pretty much useless as it cannot connect to a pc..... i was just wondering is there some way... ANYWAY!!!... that i would be able to rescue the data i have on it?...

by xt john

I have nothing else to add to robo_dev's excellent advice, just that I loved his sound effects!:-P

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