Originally Posted by BFT3K

One of my drives just died this weekend. Totally sucks, but it happens. 2nd one in around 7 years for me.

The last time I just reformatted it and it worked again, but of course everything was lost. I used it to give a freelancer a bunch of files and told him to keep the drive, as I didn't really trust it any longer.

I can reformat this one too, as it is unrecognizable and wants to be initiated. I'm thinking about maybe freezing it, but I just don't believe it will really work...