Post by blueboxer on Mar 31, 2013 23:23:09 GMT -5
I was really stoopid Friday - I managed to tangle the power cord to my Western Digital 1 Terabyte "My Book" external hard disc and yank it off the shelf onto the hardwood floor around three feet below. (It wasn't in use at the time). 
Today to see if anything was salvagable I plugged it in and connected it to my computer. Drive and computer recognized each other. In "My Computer" , clicking "Properties" gave an apparently correct reading. Calling the directory brought all the folders up and those sampled, opened. I ran "chkdisk" (XP) and it did not report any errors. No nasty noises or misbehaviour either, on my cursory examination.
A "My Book" is simply an external drive, it isn't a portable built to take drops. It seems incredible that it should still be working. Should I just consider myself bone lucky, recover all files to another drive, and write off this one, or gamble on using it for non-critical backups?
Just to award praise where praise is due, in looking for the Forum on the Linksys/Cisco site I clicked Live Chat by mistake, and got a tech who even though my router dates back many months was happy to take me by the hand (so to speak) and lead me to the answer. The tech was aware my unit was well beyond warranty and free support but since the question was simple answered it courteously and well.
Suddenly I am very much more impressed with Cisco.
Today to see if anything was salvagable I plugged it in and connected it to my computer. Drive and computer recognized each other. In "My Computer" , clicking "Properties" gave an apparently correct reading. Calling the directory brought all the folders up and those sampled, opened. I ran "chkdisk" (XP) and it did not report any errors. No nasty noises or misbehaviour either, on my cursory examination.
A "My Book" is simply an external drive, it isn't a portable built to take drops. It seems incredible that it should still be working. Should I just consider myself bone lucky, recover all files to another drive, and write off this one, or gamble on using it for non-critical backups?
Just to award praise where praise is due, in looking for the Forum on the Linksys/Cisco site I clicked Live Chat by mistake, and got a tech who even though my router dates back many months was happy to take me by the hand (so to speak) and lead me to the answer. The tech was aware my unit was well beyond warranty and free support but since the question was simple answered it courteously and well.
Suddenly I am very much more impressed with Cisco.
