If you need your data proceed with caution, if not try to reformat the drive. If it does, the culprit may be the controller. Since it is not in warranty take it apart carefully, there is a typical ( non-usb, hook up to a desktop) hard-drive in there, separate it from the controller board and test the drive in a machine My hardware friend has a test bench where he can test the drive easily, (I let him do the hardware work for me and I write him code in return) but just run the wires outside the your desktop computer and see if it recognizes the drive. I sometimes think SMART was designed to sell more disks. The problem may well be the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) has decided not to recognize the disk. Since typically a backup drive has original data somewhere else, the first step might be to get another backup drive and continue backing up your important data. I suspect my title is what happens next but let me elaborate on the RecoveryForce's post.Ĭables first, then depending on if you need to recover the data - proceed with caution
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