Damn it. Just when I\u2019m getting ready to backup my PC for that ever-exciting OS upgrade, my external backup hard drive died\u2026 a strange death, too. I was deleting an old backup set to make room for the most current and the drive started to hang. Once it finally cancels out, the drive disappears from the computer entirely. Reboot. Plug back in. And then comes the big \u2018uh-oh\u2019 \u2026 Windows can\u2019t read the drive and wants to format it. <\/p>\n
Logical guess: looks like the controller for the external drive has failed. Time to pull it out and stick it in the server.<\/p>\n
[edit] Yep\u2026 my Adaptec USB 2.0 external enclosure<\/a> released the last of it\u2019s remaining magic blue smoke<\/a>. Dropping the drive into my Windows 7 server box rebuilt the drive indexes and recovered the data via chkdsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Damn it. Just when I\u2019m getting ready to backup my PC for that ever-exciting OS upgrade, my external backup hard drive died\u2026 a strange death, too. I was deleting an old backup set to make room for the most current and the drive started to hang. Once it finally cancels out, the drive disappears from … Continue reading Failed External Backup Drive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[229,226,228,227,224],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-chkdsk","tag-external","tag-failure","tag-hard-drive","tag-seagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}