Stupidly unplugged computer while it was taking forever to log off and now one of my external hard d
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Pretty much what the title said. Someone stupidly unplugged my computer while it was taking forever to log off and now one of my external hard drives isn't showing up on the computer. Can unplugging a computer permanently fuck an external hard drive? I haven't tested it to see if the hard drive works on another computer. Anyone know anything about this?
I'd try plugging it into another SATA port first then try it in another PC.
[QUOTE=megafat;49891196]Pretty much what the title said. Someone stupidly unplugged my computer while it was taking forever to log off and now one of my external hard drives isn't showing up on the computer. Can unplugging a computer permanently fuck an external hard drive? I haven't tested it to see if the hard drive works on another computer. Anyone know anything about this?[/QUOTE]
Nowadays harddrives are very good at handling this, and filesystems are very robust and can take a beating. It's possible it wasn't logging off because of a lock somewhere depending on the dead disk in the first place.
I'd check if the system finds the drive first- hit win+r and type "diskmgmt.msc" and try to find your drive if under windows, or use fdisk/similar tools under BSD/Unix variants (osx, ubuntu, etc).
I've tried it with multiple ports, multiple computers, and when i try disk management, it doesn't show up. I even tried different cables.
I've plugged it in and it turns on, it just doesn't recognize on any computer.
[QUOTE=megafat;49895453]I've tried it with multiple ports, multiple computers, and when i try disk management, it doesn't show up. I even tried different cables.
I've plugged it in and it turns on, it just doesn't recognize on any computer.[/QUOTE]
If you are desperate enough at this point, try removing the hard drive from the enclosure and plugging it directly into a computer via SATA as you would with a normal hard drive. If doesn't show up or even spin then it's dead.
Quite frankly I think the person in question may have knocked over the drive and didn't say anything about it.
[QUOTE=megafat;49895453]I've tried it with multiple ports, multiple computers, and when i try disk management, it doesn't show up. I even tried different cables.
I've plugged it in and it turns on, it just doesn't recognize on any computer.[/QUOTE]
What hdd is it exactly?
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;49899259]If you are desperate enough at this point, try removing the hard drive from the enclosure and plugging it directly into a computer via SATA as you would with a normal hard drive. If doesn't show up or even spin then it's dead.
Quite frankly I think the person in question may have knocked over the drive and didn't say anything about it.[/QUOTE]
It's a bit of a bummer, but i might have to replace it. If i do, thankfully there was nothing super important on it.
[QUOTE=taipan;49899834]What hdd is it exactly?[/QUOTE]
An external 2TB hard drive. WD brand.
[QUOTE=megafat;49900292]It's a bit of a bummer, but i might have to replace it. If i do, thankfully there was nothing super important on it.
An external 2TB hard drive. WD brand.[/QUOTE]
WD passport?
It could be that the HDD died and stopped the PC in it's tracks. It's not uncommon for this to happen.
Try remove it from the enclosure and plug it directly into the PC. Some WD external drives have the USB controller on the drives PCB itself which can make things a pain in the arse.
Some WD drives also encrypt shit with the controller making it unreadable out of the enclosure.
I spend 3 days trying to get my girlfriends WD Passport to show data again after it fell while it was on. (scratched platter I presume).
Its one which has its own USB controller that encrypts the data and no SATA port. (Even when you remove the PCB).
The only way to get to the data is trough the propriatary WD PCB and its horribly slow as it wants to log every bad sector it comes by before you can do anything else to it. You would literally have to wait hours before you got acces to it, and for some reason this would slow the rest of your pc down to a crawl as well.
By the time it was done I got acces to the disk and could slowly clone it to another harddrive after which you can unencrypt it with a WD program. After 12 hours of slowly copying my laptop which I just installed W10 on got a windows update and canceled the operation.
So again I have to wait for the WD to log all the sectors and start copying again. However, by the time I was at that point the drive was so fucked up that it became unreadable.
0/10 would not buy an encrypted drive with propietary PCB connectors again.
If that's the model I'm thinking of, the encryption has a purpose. The drive touts that it can be used between your PC and Mac. It's less encryption and more WD's own shitty proprietary filesystem.
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