[Kilshot666]

My PC just crashed and burned yesterday and I had to replace my internal power supply, now, my external hard-drive does not work. It's powered separate from the PC itself, but now the computer doesn't--nor does my laptop--recognize it.

Any thoughts on this? I have a 1 tb WD My Book Essential. It still gets power and spins as if it has powered up, but does little to nothing else. Attempted a different cable as well.

[panther.]

On a more serious note (despite my last post, which I deleted), if you had it plugged in while all of this happened, you're probably fucked.

The same thing happened with my Mac a few years ago. There was a thunderstorm happening outside, our house got struck, power went out, corrupted the whole fucking computer to the point where it wouldn't even turn on. The only thing you can really do at this point is get a new computer.

[Losi]

Do you think it's your laptop's usb ports? Try using a usb flashdrive or other storage device to see if it's recognized. If everything else works but your external HDD still doesn't get recognized try these steps:
step 1: open CMD type CHKDSK /f "x:" (x = your corrupted drive name) (/f means "fixing" the problem)

it will run a 3 stage verification.

step 2: type CHKDSK /r x: (/r means "repairing" the problem)

it have 5 stages and could take a long time but it will repair your drive .

More in depth help here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...30714.aspx

[Kilshot666]

My laptop and desktop are fine. The Hard Drives are all fine, the one I'm concerned about is the external hard-drive, which, I'm confused as to why it's no longer working. I'll try to re-install the driver.

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Do you think it's your laptop's usb ports? Try using a usb flashdrive or other storage device to see if it's recognized. If everything else works but your external HDD still doesn't get recognized try these steps:
step 1: open CMD type CHKDSK /f "x:" (x = your corrupted drive name) (/f means "fixing" the problem)

it will run a 3 stage verification.

step 2: type CHKDSK /r x: (/r means "repairing" the problem)

it have 5 stages and could take a long time but it will repair your drive .

More in depth help here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...30714.aspx

That didn't even find the drive, nor fix it. Instead it told me I have insufficient access.

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The driver didn't work either. I might have to see if I can get all the data recovered by a professional, but that's risky, seeing as I have like 700 gigs of movies and music on there

[phyrrus9]

Go onto a linux system and run lsblk and tell me if it even shows up.

Have you tested that the USB ports themselves aren't the problem?

[Kilshot666]

The usb ports are fine, I also don't run linux because I'm a basic fag :X

My friend had an interesting solution for me. I take apart the external drive and place the disks into a brand new hard-drive/extra one I don't use.

Thoughts?

[roger_smith]

The usb ports are fine, I also don't run linux because I'm a basic fag :X

My friend had an interesting solution for me. I take apart the external drive and place the disks into a brand new hard-drive/extra one I don't use.

Thoughts?

That's actually something I was going to suggest. Typically inside the ext enclosure is just a standard 3.5 SATA HDD. You could jsut install it into a desktop system like any other hard drive once removed. Just be careful taking it apart.

[phyrrus9]

The usb ports are fine, I also don't run linux because I'm a basic fag :X

My friend had an interesting solution for me. I take apart the external drive and place the disks into a brand new hard-drive/extra one I don't use.

Thoughts?

If it isn't a SSD, that will kill the drive. The inside of the drives are vac sealed, opening it will allow dust and air into the disk, causing too much resistance or in the case of dust, can scrape the platter and kill it. Download a linux livecd and boot into it to check the drive.

[roger_smith]

If it isn't a SSD, that will kill the drive. The inside of the drives are vac sealed, opening it will allow dust and air into the disk, causing too much resistance or in the case of dust, can scrape the platter and kill it. Download a linux livecd and boot into it to check the drive.

valid point. I took "take apart" to mean remove the HDD from the enclosure. If by "take apart" you mean removing platters from the drive, don't do it. You will ruin the drive and never get the data off it.

[Kilshot666]

Right, so keep the platter in there, and see if I can't get the HDD from the external to plug into a mobo. That's probably where I'm going to be here in a few months when I am rebuilding my PC. She lasted me almost 8 years, so I figure it's about time I upgraded and made a more, "Up-to-date" pc with all the pickin's that I need.

I was deeply thinking of the process of whether or not swapping platters was a good idea or not and figured, before that--my last draw would be putting it into a mobo.

I'm also not going to install Linux, I don't have the first clue about how to use it. Would rather not put any more data I'll never use again onto my PC.