Harddrive crash and recover

[twatts]

OK, it seems we had a brown-out while we were gone for Thanksgiving and one of my externals decided that was a good time to give up the ghost...  Lost ~1.5tb of PH...  Sucks...  Its backed up for the most part in the fact the Jeff Mitchell has most everything, but I'd like to try and recover what's mine...

Any advice on how to recover a dead harddrive???  Its a Seagate External 2tb unit... 

Thanks!

Terry

[Superfreakie]

You need to let us know exactly what is not working. Is it the motor? Is it that windows is not recognizing it? Is it bad sectors? More deets please.

[justjezmund]

Do you have a tower pc?  If so I would just take apart external and plug the HDD into the motherboard and see if it is recognized and go from there.  There are also external enclosures that work if it's just a power supply issue.

[Marmar]

Run chkdsk.....

If that doesn't work.....

Either HDDRegenerator or Spinrite......

If either of those cant make it work......its dead. Spinrite has saved a disc in my system more than once.....date of mfg.- 2001......13 years on a hard drive, not bad....

[twatts]

OK, after some reading on the interwebz and some experimenting, I think I've figured out that its the power supply...  When I switch power connections, it runs just fine.  And the worked-just-fine drive I put in it place now all-of-a-sudden doesn't work...  When I crawled under my desk and felt the PS's, two of the three were slightly warm, while the third was cold...  I think that confirms it for me...

Hopefully the IT guy at work has one laying around that I can have... 

Thanks for the suggestions and help!

Terry

[twatts]

Got a new PS from the IT guy (he had about 20 different PS's in a box) and now the drive is back up and running...

Woohoo!!!  *knock on wood*

Terry