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Hi guys, maybe some of you if you're not technical people, I'm certainly not myself, can get hope here.

Two years ago I lost an external HDD to failure. On it were lovingly arranged folders of my Czech & American actresses. I had other drives that covered Hungary, Russia, France etc, but this put a huge dent in my sense that my collection was almost complete, since I'm not really into new pornstars, its mostly the period 1995 - 2015 that I'm interested in.

When I pulled open the chassis there was a controller & I thought I'd better replace that but I had great problems sourcing this 'controller' on Amazon / Ebay etc... + I didn't know if it was drive itself that was dead. Acronis (great paid for tool, I recommend it) could detect nothing, so I was lost, inactive for 2 years on situation.

Well today I chanced putting this 2TB Toshiba drive into chassis of a 500GB old Buffallo drive. It came up! I'm thrilled. And the old style folder formats you could do so well with XP are all as I left them if I log on with XP machine instead of Windows 10 etc.
What a result! The most genuine smile you'll ever see on this site, I tell you.

So if you think you've lost an external HDD, theres always hope.

I lost two months work from a wd digital drive disewring from the finder window recently.

Rim8 wrote:I lost two months work from a wd digital drive disewring from the finder window recently.

Awe, sorry to hear that. Just goes show you though, theres always hope. So for me, in my situation, what I thought was 'controller' was really only an electrical conduit. Brother, I'd recommend Acronis if its a logical issue - great tool, about 10 years ago I lost a drive full of invaluable non-porn material - it rescued it. But my current situation was even more hopeless but its resolved now Thank Goodness. So if its a physical issue, play around, experiment, it might come good.

Thanks, & sorry for your loss.

I bought 2 Western digitals: one 500MB in 2009 and another one 1TB in 2013. They both had weak unreliable platter ever since the 1st month of purchase making beeping sounds and stuffs
Since during the 1st year when it was still empty they worked fine but as the memory space shrinked, they both finally dropped dead
I never damaged them physically whatsoever
Therefore, it's WD that sell crap in mass volume
Never by WD

Now I only buy Transcend... its been 8 years and they are perfect
Iomega was my very first external HDD in 2007 and it's still working magic

OKCTwister wrote:I bought 2 Western digitals: one 500MB in 2009 and another one 1TB in 2013. They both had weak unreliable platter ever since the 1st month of purchase making beeping sounds and stuffs
Since during the 1st year when it was still empty they worked fine but as the memory space shrinked, they both finally dropped dead
I never damaged them physically whatsoever
Therefore, it's WD that sell crap in mass volume
Never by WD

Now I only buy Transcend... its been 8 years and they are perfect
Iomega was my very first external HDD in 2007 and it's still working magic

Thanks, but this was Toshiba 'controller' that proved to be fucked. Buffallo / WD have saved my skin here. Just goes to show.

I think all us guys need to pool our knowledge. It can only be good. Lets keep this thread alive.

netzerkaiser wrote:

Rim8 wrote:I lost two months work from a wd digital drive disewring from the finder window recently.

Awe, sorry to hear that. Just goes show you though, theres always hope. So for me, in my situation, what I thought was 'controller' was really only an electrical conduit. Brother, I'd recommend Acronis if its a logical issue - great tool, about 10 years ago I lost a drive full of invaluable non-porn material - it rescued it. But my current situation was even more hopeless but its resolved now Thank Goodness. So if its a physical issue, play around, experiment, it might come good.

Thanks, & sorry for your loss.

Thanks, so acronis is software I take it? I scanned with disk drill but it won't let me preview items which make me think they are gone, I may try the acronis of there is a free scan.

Rim8 wrote:

netzerkaiser wrote:

Rim8 wrote:I lost two months work from a wd digital drive disewring from the finder window recently.

Awe, sorry to hear that. Just goes show you though, theres always hope. So for me, in my situation, what I thought was 'controller' was really only an electrical conduit. Brother, I'd recommend Acronis if its a logical issue - great tool, about 10 years ago I lost a drive full of invaluable non-porn material - it rescued it. But my current situation was even more hopeless but its resolved now Thank Goodness. So if its a physical issue, play around, experiment, it might come good.

Thanks, & sorry for your loss.

Thanks, so acronis is software I take it? I scanned with disk drill but it won't let me preview items which make me think they are gone, I may try the acronis of there is a free scan.

If I recall, it was free to download & see if it could salvage situation. If it could do that then you paid. It was about $40 I think. Mind you this was nearly 10 years ago.

i only have a external hard drive as all my files copied in case my pc gets broken

my files are more important than my pc