AmesMUG: Dead LaCiE Hard Drive?

[Jonathan Salvador]

I have a LaCie 500GB Porsche drive, and a few weeks ago I had to  
replace the power adapter; just another possible cause.


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Jonathan Salvador
jonny at iastate.edu

On Jul 5, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote:

> I've never had anything like this happen so I don't quite know  
> what's going on here. Basically yesterday I had some files on my  
> desktop that I wanted to move to my LaCiE 500GB external hard drive.  
> I plugged it in and nothing happened... literally. No light on the  
> hard drive box, not a slight bit of vibration of the hard drive  
> spinning, no hard drive clicking, literally nothing like as if I  
> connected the hard drive to my MBP via FW800 without any power.  
> Tried FW400 and nothing. I turned on my other LaCiE 200GB dedicated  
> time machine backup drive and it worked fine without a hitch. Tried  
> the same firewire cable I just used for my time machine backup and  
> same thing as before nothing.
>
> I've heard hard drives clicking/failing, but this is the first  
> instance of a hard drive just not turning at all period. Anybody got  
> any advice? I left it unplugged overnight and plugged it back and  
> and still nothing. Besides switching cables I don't know what else  
> to do.
>
> Colin Wheeler
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