The Blue Blinking Light on my USB External drive!

Mortymoose said:
I would prefer not to format it , what other options do I have ?

Plug it into a Linux box , see if I can recover as much of the 2TB of Data and then format?
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I'm busy doing exactly that right now, using EaseUS Data Recovery...

Once I have moved my 1.8TB of series to another HDD, I will repair the 'damaged' HDD.
 
A strange thing, I went onto the shop floor quickly, came back and the blue light was solid, went to my computer and bot partitions are showing up now...

I can access one of the partitions..... the other causes my Pc to get confused and it keeps trying to access the partition.

Let me get a copy of EaseUS Data Recovery as MickeyD indicates and see what I can salvage from the drive....
 
Mortymoose said:
A strange thing, I went onto the shop floor quickly, came back and the blue light was solid, went to my computer and bot partitions are showing up now...

I can access one of the partitions..... the other causes my Pc to get confused and it keeps trying to access the partition.

Let me get a copy of EaseUS Data Recovery as MickeyD indicates and see what I can salvage from the drive....
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Copy the data off that one partition before doing the recovery on the other one. It will save you PLENTY of time.
 
EaseUS Data Recovery cannot read the drive , been running all night, stopped responding....

My Computer can identify the two partitions and I can access the one partition, the other, leaves my PC hanging until I physically switch the drive off!

the moment of doing a NAAS BOTHA to this drive is rapidly approaching, I think when the store closes, I shall take the drive and place it on my forklift forks, raise them to a lofty height and then point the forks forward.....

:mad:
 
Ignore previous rant! Deep Scanning now in progress.....

In all honesty, I cannot recall what the contents of the drive were, but remember getting error warnings on it a year back and making copies of those files all over my home network....
 
Mortymoose said:
Ignore previous rant! Deep Scanning now in progress.....

In all honesty, I cannot recall what the contents of the drive were, but remember getting error warnings on it a year back and making copies of those files all over my home network....
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Was about to tell you to wait... :D

It's going to take VERY long!! Will be ready tomorrow.
 
Mortymoose said:
Ignore previous rant! Deep Scanning now in progress.....

In all honesty, I cannot recall what the contents of the drive were, but remember getting error warnings on it a year back and making copies of those files all over my home network....
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I don't get it. What scanning? Trying to repair file system the on faulty drive not good idea.
Get your data copied ASAP. Copy sector-by sector to a new drive or a file. Then you can start file recovery.
 
sajunky said:
I don't get it. What scanning? Trying to repair file system the on faulty drive not good idea.
Get your data copied ASAP. Copy sector-by sector to a new drive or a file. Then you can start file recovery.
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HDD has 2 partitions.
Can read 1. (Advised to copy that data to another HDD)
Cannot detect 2. (Advised to recover that data).
 
I have had this before... that drive still works to this day.
In my case the PC it was connected to was hit by lightning.

I ran a boot CD (I forget which one) and used a utility on there to fix the drive. Sorted! Took 1/2 an hour and no I didn't even have to open the thing.
 
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