@fizze wrote:
Well, I’d plug it to a standard PC and see wether its even mountable. What filesystem did you use? Ext3? Then chances are alright, given the journal and stuff, I’d say.
If it doesn’t even mount, you have to remove it fro mthe USB enclosure and put it to a standard (P-ATA or S-ATA) connector in a PC. Other than that same game.
So maybe the USB enclosure has died, but the HD has not. I’ve seen that.In Unix you can just dive in with fdisk and the likes, to apply a few checks to see wether data is there, anyhow.
Can’t tell you what tools to use henceforth, though.
If you get to that point and decide the drive is toast, it sounds like may be electronics, and not the drive itself.
One thing worth trying is to order the exact same drive, and swap the pcb on the bottom. That of course would only work if that’s what’s broken, not the motor or anything inside the drive.
Worth a shot, and you need to buy a replacement anyway, so… Does probably void your warranty on the drive, though.
— Ron