Il giorno 08/09/13 04.45, "Cliff Rediger" ha scritto: > This is my first HD failure. I sort of presumed one might see some sort of > weirdness or gradual malfunction.
FWIW, in my longish experience with computer hardware (20+ years), and several dead HDs, most of the times the failing drives manifest some problem (weird noises, failure at reading, system errors, no boot...) before really being dead for good. In most cases, I had a chance to recover most (if not all) the data from the drive before it was just a "brick". Sometimes, though, a drive can be dead with no previous sign. Being such delicate mechanisms, there's several things that can (and do) go bad inside them. Anyway, I support others' advice to check the drive outside its enclosure, before giving up hope. Sometimes, connecting external drives can be ... odd. Just recently I had a couple drives that worked fine when connected to a computer, but they didn't even show up when connected to another one. Yet, HD interfaces should be amongst the most standard things. Baffling. :-| -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
