Jack Bauer
The Fly
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- Feb 18, 2009
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I don't really have much knowledge about hardware, but i think my external hard drive is dying.
So i have a WD Mybook essential edition which is 3 years old now. Today Windows showed the drive, but it said Local disk(while the label is My Book and that is how it always showed up in Windows), and when i try to open it it says that the disk is damaged.
Then i plugged it in on OSX and luckily i was still able to read the contents of the drive, so i thought that at first it was a Windows issue, which is most of the time the case But, on OSX i also couldn't read some of the data, some folders showed up as empty, so i copied as much as i could to my internal mac drive, and all my personal data and U2 albums and dvd's are safe
So i guess the drive is dying? On mac it doesn't read half of the data and on Windows i cant even access the drive at all. Is there any way to check the drive, like checkdisk with windows, on OSX? I am not really familiar with OSX yet.
And i think i heard a few times that they put failing hard drives in the freezer, does this work? And in what would i have to wrap it in?
So i have a WD Mybook essential edition which is 3 years old now. Today Windows showed the drive, but it said Local disk(while the label is My Book and that is how it always showed up in Windows), and when i try to open it it says that the disk is damaged.
Then i plugged it in on OSX and luckily i was still able to read the contents of the drive, so i thought that at first it was a Windows issue, which is most of the time the case But, on OSX i also couldn't read some of the data, some folders showed up as empty, so i copied as much as i could to my internal mac drive, and all my personal data and U2 albums and dvd's are safe
So i guess the drive is dying? On mac it doesn't read half of the data and on Windows i cant even access the drive at all. Is there any way to check the drive, like checkdisk with windows, on OSX? I am not really familiar with OSX yet.
And i think i heard a few times that they put failing hard drives in the freezer, does this work? And in what would i have to wrap it in?