One of mine gave me about an hour notice before it died for good. Folders were disappearing and reappearing. One sign it kept giving me was that when I booted up the drive it was "invisible" and not showing up in Windows Explorer or anywhere else. I tried reformatting the drive several times and it would work then not work. The sign it gave me prior to dying for good was an unusual noise that I hadn't heard before. I had that drive for about four years and it never was any good. When it started acting funny, I purchased another external drive that has worked fine and moved everything over to it.
The second one just up and died without notice. It was an archive drive where everything on it was already backed up to DVDs so no loss there. Sometimes you'll know when it's about to die when it starts acting unusual. Bill Boswell From: carogene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Caption/Text for images (.jpg) Which raises a question from me please, is there any way you can tell if your external hard drive is on the way out? I use mine once a week (usually) and just overwrite each time, but I do worry that it might not be working! Carolyn again! Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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