rhinosaur
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My LaCie pocket drive (60GB) seems to have died on me. When plugged in via FireWire or USB (with the power adapter) I only get an amber light. When I put my ear to the drive I can hear it spin up and stop, spin up and stop. Not a good sign, eh? I'm pretty sure the drive is toast, but it isn't that old (not even 2 years) and even though it's a portable it was rarely moved around much - usually between workstations. The drive was originally used as a completed jobs disd - it would move between workstations to allow people to archive complete work before being archived to DVD.
Just recently I moved it to our back up station to use with Retrospect. It's currently the biggest HD we have outside of internals on our workstations - so it was ideal as a temporary Retrospect drive (we're looking into tape or other solutions at the moment). Now it's dead I'm not too concerned about the Retrospect data - I'll just start another set on another drive this evening - but I hate to give up on this drive just yet. Is there anything I can do to fix, repair or otherwise test to see if the drive is really dead?
Just recently I moved it to our back up station to use with Retrospect. It's currently the biggest HD we have outside of internals on our workstations - so it was ideal as a temporary Retrospect drive (we're looking into tape or other solutions at the moment). Now it's dead I'm not too concerned about the Retrospect data - I'll just start another set on another drive this evening - but I hate to give up on this drive just yet. Is there anything I can do to fix, repair or otherwise test to see if the drive is really dead?