I can only assume that the guts of these drives wear prematurely, either the platter bearing runs out and the data bands on the platters move about faster than the tracking arm can follow them, or the tracking arm bearings themselves are worn and the arm and read heads lose alignment. I do not know why this works, it just does - sometimes. The last thing you want is for the drive to go into a high duty cycle and forever die from overwork in its fragile state. Copy your files in singles, not by folders. Open Explorer and hopefully, the drive will now be there and directories will be accessable.ĩ. Give the drive about a minute to stabilise.Ĩ. If the spindle motor runs up to speed, you should also hear some clicks as the read arm actuator comes off park and sets itself.ħ. If it doesn't, the drive is cactus or you do not have the right cable.Ħ. Hot-plug the other end of the USB cord into the computer.ĥ. Place your ear against the body of the drive. Do not allow it to move from this position whilst it is running otherwise it will fail entirelyģ.
Incline the USB drive about 20 degrees clockwise from level, as viewed from the end opposite its USB socket. With the USB lead already unplugged from the computer, connect the small plug into the USB drive.Ģ. Shut down, then restart, get your operating system healthy again, connect a known good USB drive, cycle into it and use the eject media process to remove it, then shut down Windows correctly, restart, reconnect the known good drive once more, check it is working with windows Explorer, then again eject this drive correctly.ġ. If the drive still flakes out and takes your operating system down with it, disconnect the drive. Make sure the plug which has two leads branching out of it is the one you plug into the computer.
It will not co-operate with any other cord. Make sure you have the special branched USB cord that came with the device. If you have one of those little silver and rubbery backed small USB drives that power from the computer and have one which steadfastly refuses to play nicely, as in failed to be seen by the computer, or in PC Windows Explorer, shows as an empty drive yet when properties of looked at, shows data is contained, in absence of all other solutions maybe try this :.
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