One of my external USB hard drives died - What to do with it?
 

It seems it totally died tonight
It's a Freecom 250 gigs
Any advice on how to extract all that 's stored inside?
Other than re downloading everything that's in it ...
:helpme

Really depends how and why its died.

Best thing way to run external drives is to run two side by side and then when you have a problem or failure you still have one which is ok. Externals are now so very big and very cheap its the best way.

Does the bios still detect it?

I would bring it to a comp shop and have them extract the data otherwise its what the previous guy said, it depends how it died.

that sucks, our photographer had that last week wham 4 shoots gone... If its still detected id take it to a shop extract the data

That's what I ll do
Don't know how it died.
I left it here uploading content from it via ftp.
When I checked back today it was just resting here like it was unplugged.
It had transferred half of the ftp queue and just plain died :(

I ll take it to the store later today and see what they can do ...

how did it die?

ill better get a backup

Imagine working at compusa, and one day some dude brings in his broken hard drive with 250 gigs of porn on it for you to extract

:upsidedow

If the Bios still sees the drives, then it is more likely, it is more likely corrupted thann " fried ". Like it will say: " This drive is not formatted, Do you want to format it now" ....

If so, use Restorer2000 at http://www.restorer2000.com/

Works miracles .... :2 cents:

If not detected, then bring it to a specialist.

I have here lots of large drives not working anymore, might give it a try.

Its always good to backup the important data so that we can recover it incase if there is any problems... at this time i would only suggest u to consult a specialist :)