AmesMUG: Dead LaCiE Hard Drive?

[Trevin Ward]

Before you remove the hard drive from the enclosure make sure your machine
isn't under warranty.  If you are you'll likely void the warranty by opening
it up

Trevin Ward
Senior, Political Science
Iowa State University

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Brandon Newendorp <bnew at iastate.edu> wrote:

> Could very well be the enclosure failed, I've had that happen to me. You
> could try pulling the drive out of the enclosure and putting into another
> one.
>
> --
> Brandon Newendorp
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Colin Wheeler <colindw at gmail.com> 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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