Today in the morning, I turned my computer on and plugged my LaCie external hard drive on. Nothing happened. No icon appeared on the desktop. Soon I noticed that the led was blinking orange and green light and I heard the hard drive slowly click.
Not again! Only last summer I lost one hard disk drive, and now the rather expensive external hard disk was dead. Fortunately, I had mostly backups on the hard disk and only a few hundred photos that I probably did not have elsewhere.
After some googling around I learned how to open the case by using a thin kitchen knife. What I found was a basic Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive. It turned out to be a fully functioning hard disk that was easy to mount as an internal hard disk in my desktop computer.
Now I have something I should probably call an internal external hard disk :-)
Tomorrow I have to buy yet another hard disk for building some kind of automatic backup system using some old box I have under my desk.
Any suggestions?
2 comments:
I had the same experience with a LaCie. A power spike during a winter storm took out the USB interface. But I opened the case and extracted the SATA drive inside, and it's been working fine now that it's installed in one of my desktop machines.
please, be sure to let us know your solution you'd take to live with.
i'm really interested.
thanks
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