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External hard drive

  • 28-04-2018 07:09PM
    #1
    leemaree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭


    Anyone here ever retrieve anything from a dead hard drive? When I plug it in, it makes the noise as going into the computer. But the drive is not showing on the computer :( Its not showing up in explorer or disk management. the files and folders were showing yesterday through a software called find and mount. There not anymore. its spinning aswell but nothing showing up.


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,568 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    What make and model of drive is it? You might be able to remove it from the casing and place it in an external hard drive caddy and that may work, depends what is damaged.


  • #3
    leemaree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭leemaree


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    What make and model of drive is it? You might be able to remove it from the casing and place it in an external hard drive caddy and that may work, depends what is damaged.

    It is a Samsung external hard drive 1TB


  • #4
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,334 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    There is a fairly good chance that the problem is the enclosure, not the disk inside


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