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Klumpen said:
Oh great, now the new external 2tb-hdd with the important data stopped working. :(
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Is it completely dead like not powering up at all?

You could be in luck a lot of those external drives are just a regular hard drive with basically an adapter it could just be the adapter that is dead so you can plug in the hard drive and recover your files.

Also you might try and replace the PCB before you send it off to a data recovery specialist since that breaking is one of the main causes of a drive suddenly dying. I can guarantee you that is the first thing they try and it works 95% of the time with dead hard drives.

Hard drives that have been showing signs of dying for awhile is a different story though.
 
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I just bought it new a month ago, the case did funny things after two weeks and two weeks later, the format system was scrambled. I managed to get the most important data out of it already, just need to wait for a new HDD to rescue my music. Hopefully I get my money back, because I don't trust this drive and instead of a Seagate Barracuda which is normally inside this model, there was a cheap Toshiba in it and two of the screws already looked worn out.

Found some pictures of my Ex on it which depressed me a bit  though.

And I'm ill in bed now...

Regarding all the dead people mentioned in this thread:

I got plenty of experience with that, sometimes I just hope, that people I Iike at least reach the age of 35 or so. You got my sympathies.
 
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I think I need to join the broken hdd crowd. :)
It's still working in principle, but failed a manual 'smart' self test (reading failure). It's not a new one, at least. Again according to smart it has close to 40k working hours on its buckle which I think is possibly true.
And I just wiped it anyway. Nice timing. :)

Edit: Oh and Klumpen: For the next time: When opening stuff then always search for screws under stickers and rubber feet and the like. When there are no screws then search for places to slide a knife in and gently slide it in a little bit and widen the slit a little bit to see if something pops open. Do this for all slits. If that doesn't work without breaking something then you missed some screws.
 
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Best tools I know of for getting into clip-closed electronics are cheap guitar picks. I picked up a dozen various sorts from a local music shop a couple of years ago. I find picks in the thickness range of .5mm to .8mm nylon ones are best for getting into stuff without risking damaging it, and you will sacrifice a few picks which is why it's best to get cheap no-brand ones if you can, as it's better off to sacrifice a pick that costs a few pennies to disfiguring the device you're trying to repair.


Although I've never seen a clip-close hdd, so I guess this post is off-topic. Never mind.
 
I've recently opened two external hdds which were held closed by clips.

Yes, I guess knifes are maybe not the most careful option. Though mostly if you are careful it should be no problem, I've yet to cause worse things than scratches to the case when doing it with a knife.
 
@Levi: It's the same in my house, but I got somewhat impatient and changed my avatar back :p
 
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Bring on the new year. Working during xmas week and now was a terrible idea. Kind of was forced though.
 
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