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Well I'm really fucking pissed off at myself. I broke my new back-up drive. Goddammit.
I got a nifty new 1 terabyte external hard drive for $100 so I could back up my stuff. Yeah, overkill for two laptops, but it was a hundred dollars, and the older external drive I have holds less than 100 gigs and it cost $90, so I figured it was a good deal. It's from TigerDirect.com if you're wondering.
Anyway, the drive, for some reason, has a really short USB cord. Like, 18 inches, where the cord for my smaller drive is like four feet. So I had it sitting on my table with my laptop and was moving data over a bit at a time. Well, I needed to go to the bathroom, so I went down the hall. Problem: The power cable of the drive was stretched across the walkway. And I had been careful before in case I tripped on it, but guess what? It snagged my toe, and the drive fell off the table. It caught on the USB cord, swung a bit, then the cord came off from the drive and it hit the ground before I could catch it. Bounce, grinding noises, I fret for a second and turn it off.
After a minute of swearing at myself, I reconnect everything and turn the drive back on. Buzz, buzz, the laptop says it's installing the drivers. Which it had already done previously. It says that the device was installed, and hoping that nothing was wrong, I go to My Computer to enter the drive and see if the data is fine. It's not coming up.
I check the "Safely Remove Device" thing, and the computer recognizes that there is a USB Mass Storage Device, and it even knows the brand, but for some reason it doesn't recognize it as a drive I can enter. I'm not sure what to do. I've got a one year warranty (and I bought it just the other week), so I can send it back for repairs or replacement, but I'd rather not. I'd moved some data over (rather than just copied it) that I don't want to let go, as well as backing up some stuff like passwords and other personal information.
So would anyone know anything about fixing it? Hopefully just going into something on my computer and making it recognize the drive? I'm going to put in a support request with the company, but any advice at all would be appreciated.
EDIT: Okay, so I tried the drive again. I hear a weird clicking noise when the drive is turned on, so I think some hardware is broken. I'd try to fix it myself, but the only way to open it is some weird proprietary lock thingy that hides all the screws. I bet if I tried to open it somehow, I'd break it even more or void the warranty or something. Aargh.
I got a nifty new 1 terabyte external hard drive for $100 so I could back up my stuff. Yeah, overkill for two laptops, but it was a hundred dollars, and the older external drive I have holds less than 100 gigs and it cost $90, so I figured it was a good deal. It's from TigerDirect.com if you're wondering.
Anyway, the drive, for some reason, has a really short USB cord. Like, 18 inches, where the cord for my smaller drive is like four feet. So I had it sitting on my table with my laptop and was moving data over a bit at a time. Well, I needed to go to the bathroom, so I went down the hall. Problem: The power cable of the drive was stretched across the walkway. And I had been careful before in case I tripped on it, but guess what? It snagged my toe, and the drive fell off the table. It caught on the USB cord, swung a bit, then the cord came off from the drive and it hit the ground before I could catch it. Bounce, grinding noises, I fret for a second and turn it off.
After a minute of swearing at myself, I reconnect everything and turn the drive back on. Buzz, buzz, the laptop says it's installing the drivers. Which it had already done previously. It says that the device was installed, and hoping that nothing was wrong, I go to My Computer to enter the drive and see if the data is fine. It's not coming up.
I check the "Safely Remove Device" thing, and the computer recognizes that there is a USB Mass Storage Device, and it even knows the brand, but for some reason it doesn't recognize it as a drive I can enter. I'm not sure what to do. I've got a one year warranty (and I bought it just the other week), so I can send it back for repairs or replacement, but I'd rather not. I'd moved some data over (rather than just copied it) that I don't want to let go, as well as backing up some stuff like passwords and other personal information.
So would anyone know anything about fixing it? Hopefully just going into something on my computer and making it recognize the drive? I'm going to put in a support request with the company, but any advice at all would be appreciated.
EDIT: Okay, so I tried the drive again. I hear a weird clicking noise when the drive is turned on, so I think some hardware is broken. I'd try to fix it myself, but the only way to open it is some weird proprietary lock thingy that hides all the screws. I bet if I tried to open it somehow, I'd break it even more or void the warranty or something. Aargh.