Hard Drive Failure–Can I Save It?

Posted by Mi on November 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Apparently, my Maxtor drive died. I’m still looking into ways to fix it, but at the moment, I’m declaring it dead. Along with my X drive.

I just bought X recently, about 2 weeks ago. It’s a 320Gb Seagate drive (PATA) and I planned to dedicate it to music. It’s an internal HDD inside an external case. So far it had about 200+ Gb of music already.

I’m going to write about what happened in case someone else has a better idea.

I mentioned that I’m also taking proofreading and editing a paper for someone. But I was too lazy to sit on my behind and I decided to do it on my laptop like I did with the first draft. I saved the draft on X because I set it as download default since that was what I’ve been downloading lately–catching up on music I missed for the past few months. And X was on share.

So I was trying to access the draft over WAN and it said the drive was inaccessible. I’ve been getting I/O Device errors before so I thought that that might be affecting it, so I moved my lazy behind to the desktop and checked what was happening. I tried accessing X and it kept saying that it was inaccessible. There was another error but I forgot what it was.

I figured that maybe a reboot would help, so I rebooted.

After the reboot… It said it was empty.

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