My Book Problems

[Jockstar]

Recently my external hard drive has been playing up. Now i cant even get into it to retrieve my photos and music. Any ideas? Is there some way i can hack into it and retrieve my stuff? Thanks in advance.

[nullx8]

if the reset not works .. and the data is essential .. i would take the harddiscs out and put into another casing to retrieve the data.

[Jockstar]

if the reset not works .. and the data is essential .. i would take the harddiscs out and put into another casing to retrieve the data.

How does that work?

[nullx8]

How does that work?

- have a 3,5 Inch case of Firewire2IDE adapter handy

- open the mybook

- connect the adapter

then you can access the disc just like it is installed in your Machine

[Jockstar]

How does that work?

- have a 3,5 Inch case of Firewire2IDE adapter handy

- open the mybook

- connect the adapter

then you can access the disc just like it is installed in your Machine

Actually took out the hardrive and installed it straight to the Pc. However i can't open the hard drive to get my stuff. Even my mate whos better with comps has failed. Tried using a program called Recuva and it can find my pics but for some reason cant recover them. Any other programs that can be used that are free?

[nullx8]

oh, that sounds like a bigger problem, you are running windows ?

Mybooks using FAT Formats, do not attempt to write to the disc at all ... if the files are "lost" (not in the fat-tables) they will be written over by new data fragments.

WD recoments Data Lifeguard .. but i dont think this can recover your files properly.

[ignis]

Learnt long ago the hard way.

Now for some years have always copied everything on PC and Laptop to RW DVD's, OK at the time the 10 x RW top quality DVD disc were very expensive, [wow got me thinking there about 10 years old now] but at least when I have new stuff I can just write over the top all the new data and pictures..

Can you plug a 'my book' into a PC to copy? or write a DVD? have USB and use an External HDD as a copy/image of My Book?

[Jockstar]

Have given up trying to fix myself. Have tried many things. Now the Pc wont even see the thing as a drive. It did yesterday but not now. Looks like i will have to send to someone to recover.