After I cleaned out the old hardware, I plugged the bad drive back in. The standard bubble pop-ups of "New USB Device", "Disk Drive", etc popped up in succession, ending with "Your new hardware is installed and ready to use" or whatever the smug lying text is. Opening My Computer, I find no new logical drive. Opening the Disk Management I find no new physical drive.
Upon opening Testdisk I see the device as "dev\sdb" and the capacity is right but the geometry is wrong according to the manufacturer website. And it finds an old partition on the "wrong" geometry.
While I delighted in scraping away 20-something unused drivers, my problem remains.
I found out that Windows thinks there are Bad Blocks on my drive. I would be surprised if that were the case, since I've hardly used this drive ever. Which sucks as I've had it at least long enough for the warranty/RMA to be invalid.
Any more suggestions? I would give anything to turn this into a working drive.
I couldn't find it in Disk Management! Also, when I first went to check out the disk manager, it would hang for minutes unless I unplugged the USB drive.
So what I've determined is:
1. It is readable. (As I can reliably recover files from it.)
2. It is somehow unmountable.
I know the enclosure is good because I use another drive in it and it works perfectly. If I could just figure out how to mount the bad drive and zap away whatever is corrupting it.
I put a working 80gig IDE drive into a $30 external enclosure and when Windows XP popped up the USB device install I was so psyched I nearly shit my pants.
An hour later my PC freezes up (as is routine) with the USB drive still mounted.
Upon reboot, the drive refuses to mount.
Many hard disk data recovery tools recovered the files BUT I have yet to find anything that will mount and wipe the drive.
As far as I know it is permanently corrupted. Which seems like it should be impossible but here I am with this piece of junk sitting on my desk silently laughing at me.
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Second Life is virtual mile after virtual mile of strip clubs and clothing stores.
Not to mention it isn't even a game.
I will always have a copy of Nethack on my USB drive.
one of the Ultima Online expansions (UO Renaissance I think) came with a UO medallion and cloth map of the game world.
Its a shame EA turned Origin into such a lame company.
After I cleaned out the old hardware, I plugged the bad drive back in. The standard bubble pop-ups of "New USB Device", "Disk Drive", etc popped up in succession, ending with "Your new hardware is installed and ready to use" or whatever the smug lying text is. Opening My Computer, I find no new logical drive. Opening the Disk Management I find no new physical drive.
Upon opening Testdisk I see the device as "dev\sdb" and the capacity is right but the geometry is wrong according to the manufacturer website. And it finds an old partition on the "wrong" geometry.
I would love to do that, any pointers?
While I delighted in scraping away 20-something unused drivers, my problem remains. I found out that Windows thinks there are Bad Blocks on my drive. I would be surprised if that were the case, since I've hardly used this drive ever. Which sucks as I've had it at least long enough for the warranty/RMA to be invalid. Any more suggestions? I would give anything to turn this into a working drive.
The enclosure works well with other IDE drives. But I would like to stick this bad drive in a PC tower when I get the chance.
I couldn't find it in Disk Management! Also, when I first went to check out the disk manager, it would hang for minutes unless I unplugged the USB drive. So what I've determined is: 1. It is readable. (As I can reliably recover files from it.) 2. It is somehow unmountable. I know the enclosure is good because I use another drive in it and it works perfectly. If I could just figure out how to mount the bad drive and zap away whatever is corrupting it.
I put a working 80gig IDE drive into a $30 external enclosure and when Windows XP popped up the USB device install I was so psyched I nearly shit my pants.
An hour later my PC freezes up (as is routine) with the USB drive still mounted.
Upon reboot, the drive refuses to mount.
Many hard disk data recovery tools recovered the files BUT I have yet to find anything that will mount and wipe the drive.
As far as I know it is permanently corrupted. Which seems like it should be impossible but here I am with this piece of junk sitting on my desk silently laughing at me.
the internet is such a new technology, i'm relieved we aren't going to have to wait as long as it took the Government to deregulate the radio.