[bturnock]

Please excuse the fact that I am a novice when it comes to technology.

I have a Buslink 200GB External USB2.0 Hard Drive that has all of a sudden stopped working. Since this is my backup drive for all my software, files, music, pictures, etc. this has caused a small panic on my part.

I am able to power it up, the drive starts to spin normally and then stops. All connections are fine, I switched out the USB cable, tried connecting it to two other laptops and nothing. I cannot get the laptop to recognize the drive and the drive doesn't seem to be doing anything. Any help would be appreciated!

 

[ceri sheeran]

Hi,

If the drive does not spin continuously then it is likely you not going to recover the data easily without professional help.

The article 200 ways to revive a dead hard drive

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=200+ways+to+revive+a+dead+hard+disk&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

May help.

Many have used the freezer trick. I prefer backups.

Professional data recovery will be expensive

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...a+recovery"+"hard+drive+not+spinning"&spell=1

hth

Ceri

 

[kev1952]

As it's an external drive it could be that the controller circuitry in the external case has gone bad. Pull the hard disk out of the case and connect it as a slave internally in your computer case. See if it works then and you will be able to get the data off.