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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?
An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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Black screen with only a cursor and security options when I plug my external hdd in
I recently dropped my external hard disk and it wouldn't spin after that and would only make some beeping sounds.
So, I searched on YouTube on how to fix it and opened it up and did this.
But, after ...
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Can I move a hard disk platter to another hard drive?
My hard disk just started making a ticking sound, and then it stopped spinning. I checked the inside and saw that the r/w head is broken.
Can I just move the platter to another hard drive or will it ...
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Is this hard-drive beyond recovery? [closed]
A family member dropped a couple of their external hard drives as they were swapping to a new computer.
Needless to say both drives have been ruined, but with different symptoms; the first drive works ...
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Can't access external harddrive in OSX
For some reason i can't access my external HDD anymore. It's not showing up in Finder, although i can see it in the Volumes folder and in Disk Utility app.
When i access the HDD from terminal and try ...
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Western Digital Elements 1TB USB3.0 Spins up and then beeps?
Well, today, I unplugged my WD external HDD from my laptop so that I could move it to a different port. I was not using any program that would be accessing the drive at the time. However, when I ...
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Old HD not botting, now external drive, can't get files
SO my old hard drive wouldn't boot anymore, I think the error had something to do with MUI not being full or something? So I bought a new computer and pulled the drive from my old computer and put it ...
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SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 HDD not running
After a huge research, I'm stuck at the beggining of getting my HDD data back.
Whats happening to me is that in the moment when I plug the power wire to my external 1TB SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 ...
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Something went wrong with external hard-drive, can I get my data back?
I have Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex External Hard Drive (500GB) and today when I plugged it to the laptop, it wasn't detected, and the indicator also remained off, however, I noticed a beep sound at ...
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