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External USB hard drive won't boot

  • 17-02-2008 6:24pm
    #1
    joker77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭


    Hi - I have a 120Gb Western Digital Passport drive, which was working fine the last few monhts but now won't show up in my list of drives.

    When I plug in the USB it makes a funny beeping noise, 5 times - de-de-di, de-de-di, de-de-di, de-de-di, de-de-di

    Any suggestions as to what the problem is??

    Are there any reasonably priced data recovery people in Dublin?


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  • #2
    invisimage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭invisimage


    joker77 wrote: »
    Hi - I have a 120Gb Western Digital Passport drive, which was working fine the last few monhts but now won't show up in my list of drives.

    When I plug in the USB it makes a funny beeping noise, 5 times - de-de-di, de-de-di, de-de-di, de-de-di, de-de-di

    Any suggestions as to what the problem is??

    Are there any reasonably priced data recovery people in Dublin?
    Are they the one that get the power from the usb? I have read they sometime do not get enough power. Would lack of power be the issue?I do not have one I only read that when reseaching them as I was thinking of buying one but that kinda put me off


  • #3
    joker77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Yea they're powered from the USB. It was working fine, we had a party on Saturday night - it's possible something was split on it or it was dropped.

    There is an LED which is coming on ok, and the sound that Windows makes when a USB device is plugged in/out is happening.


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