Experienced help with External drive prob.

Hi folks,

Looking for some experienced help...


My external USB/FW drive has stoppped working after I unpluged it into
a Mac and didn’t eject it first. I was copying files between the PC
and a Mac. Now the drive boots up but starts making more clicking
sounds then usuall and after a min or so the access light stops
flashing and switches off which I haven’t seen before. It doesn’t
appear in My Computer at all nor device manager. Has the boot sector
or whatever is is called damaged and how could I try repairing that ?

Of course it could be the external case has burnt out but I don’t have
another SATA to test with buying another cable for inside the PC. I’ll
coul d try that after the recovery process.


THANKS TO EVERYONE !

Jam.

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On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:22:09 -0500, jamjucie wrote:

Hi folks,

Looking for some experienced help...


My external USB/FW drive has stoppped working after I unpluged it into
a Mac and didn’t eject it first. I was copying files between the PC
and a Mac. Now the drive boots up but starts making more clicking
sounds then usuall and after a min or so the access light stops
flashing and switches off which I haven’t seen before. It doesn’t
appear in My Computer at all nor device manager. Has the boot sector
or whatever is is called damaged and how could I try repairing that ?

Of course it could be the external case has burnt out but I don’t have
another SATA to test with buying another cable for inside the PC. I’ll
coul d try that after the recovery process.


THANKS TO EVERYONE !

Jam.

Read something like this before where the "item" has defaulted to the
Mac system .