The third drive might just be suffering from a bad controller board.
The two that died in the machine probably have scrambled information in
the boot sector, it's really bad luck when that happens, if they respond
to the OS at all there are utilities that can analyze the drive and
maybe rewrite that sector so the data is accessible, I haven't had much
luck with those methods lately.
If the drives are old enough, and they are all the same model with the
same firmware, you may be able to take the controller board from one of
the drives in your machine, and perform a transplant. Needless to say
this will void the hardware warranty. Also it may make things worse,
though how that could be I don't know.
There are YouTube videos that give detailed instructions on how to do
both. I'd give some but as I've said, I haven't had a lot of luck
recovering drives lately...
On 11/29/2018 4:09 PM, mike wilson wrote:
On 29 November 2018 at 20:43 John <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/29/2018 13:32, mike wilson wrote:
I've had three hard drives on the go for a while. Two at home and one off
site. The off site one croaked so I had a replacement to format. Before
that kicked off, I added some files to one of the other drives and then
started backing that up to the other. At which point we had one of those
micro disruptions, where all the lights flicker - and computers reboot. Now
neither of the drives is responsive - about four years' work. Did I mention
I hate digital photography?
Ouchies! I hope the third drive has the images duplicated & you can recover.
Third drive was already dead.
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