Inside the plastic case of the Transcend StoreJet H2 1TB, is a small circuit board, and a laptop size harddrive.
The small circuit board is an Interface Board. The harddrive plugs into it, or there are cables which come from the Interface Board, and plug into the harddrive. The other end of the Interface Board has a USB cable attached to it.
Most of the time it is this small circuit board that fails. Very rarely does the harddrive fail. (Unless the external harddrive was dropped)
I would suggest removing the harddrive from the Transcend, and putting it into an inexpensive external enclosure.
External hard drives are portable storage devices you can use to back up files or transfer content from one computer to another quickly and safely.
While external hard drives vary in design and storage capacity, turning them off properly is ideal because it decreases the chances of damaging or corrupting files.
Whether you are using Windows or Mac OS X, you can safely eject and turn off your external hard drive in minutes.
Safely eject your external hard drive before turning it off if you have connected it to your computer.
To do so, click the "Safely remove hardware" icon on the system tray on the taskbar. T
he hardware window launches.
Click your external hard drive's icon in the hardware window and click the "Stop" button.
You should see the "This device can now be safely removed from your computer" dialog message.
Press the "Power" button to turn off your external hard drive.
Some external hard drives turn off automatically when you safely eject them.
Right-click your external hard drive's icon on the desktop if you are using a Mac, and then click "Eject."
Alternatively, drag your external hard drive's icon from the desktop to the "Trash" bin.
You should no longer see your hard drive on the desktop.
Press the "Power" button to turn off your external hard drive
Download and install free software called RECUVA. It can search the entire external hard drive. This will take some time to complete. Then you'll see a list of files which have been found. Please recover/save the files to a different hard drive.
Depending on the current draw required by an external hard drive, a double usb is sometimes required.
Get on at Frys or the like. If it doesn't work, you can return it.
Semper Fi,
Z
Absolutely yes. You can do that in Disk Management or in AOMEI Partition Assistant. There should be an option like "Format..." when you right click the partition you want to format.
