20 Most Recent Fantom Drives Premier (4606146-U320) 146 GB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

I'm not sure you can get a USB SCSI hard drive adapter case.
I've got an Adaptec SCSI to USB adapter cable and found ot very useful.
It is not as handy as a USB hard drive case bur it works.

Take the circuit board with the LEDs on it to an electronics expert to replace the LEDs or the components that control them and aren't working on the board.

If your disk is in warranty period. Visit service. Or try change external case with electronic parts.

Customer Service: 800-980-3463 (at MicroNet/Fantom) most of their adapters run from $18-$28.00 The 4-5 pin connector on your drive might show the power (output) from adapter to (input) for external drive.

• Website: http://www.fantomdrives.com
• Support Phone: 310-320-0772 - Good Luck.

Are the drives still under warranty or not? All drives will fail. If they aren't, break open the case and put the drives into new enclosures or place them in a desktop (if you have extra IDE or SATA connectors available) as secondary drives. You may need adapters if these are portable drives. This will let you see if the enclosure has failed or the drive itself. The one that is clicking may not be usable (clicking usually means a head problem). However, you should be able to recover files. You may need to use a file recovery program, like Recuva, if the drive has lost the partition information. I hope this helps. If the drives are under warranty, decide if you want to void your warranty. The data will not be recovered under warranty with most external drives.Cindy Wells (I've replaced several hard drives when they went bad. By cloning the drive before it fails, I haven't lost data. I've also attempted to rescue data after the failure. I try to back up important data to optical discs as well as flash drives and backup HDDs.)

The hard drive is faulty and we mortals cannot retrieve data from a faulty hard drive.There are companies that can retrieve data from a faulty hard drive BUT it will cost you an arm and a leg for their services.If future with these external hard drives, it pays to have a second one so you can back up your data on the second hard drive in case the first hard drive becomes faulty.

Try plugging the hard drive to a different usb port, if that doesnt work its possible that you may need to update the usb drivers.

Try to plug the external hard drive to a different port. if its not working try to use other usb device like ipod, or thumb drive and if the other usb device works it means the problem is the external hard drive it self. If the problem still the same the problem is the usb ports probably the motherbaord

That security lock has nothing to do with your problem - it's there to allow you to keep the unit attached to the pc so it can't be stolen.
In your case that simple switch has failed : the button you move has a little spring on its base that flips a metal pin to make the contact , that spring got loose and the pin no longer flips. The contact must be replaced. That a very simple operation, it's soldered just in its 2 contact posts so unsolde it there and it will pop out. Take it and go to a shop that sells electric or hobby equipment and find an identical replacement - it's a standard part very commonly used in a lot of other stuff.
If you can't find one then just solder a little wire across the contacts to keep it always powered - to unpower it just take out the power cable.

Hard drive (external or internal) won't beep, unless there is mechanial faulty issue. You can test by plug in this fantom in to another computer (desktop or laptop) to see if it is recognized and can copy/transfer files. More than likely is going to die soon (based on what you described beep, and not responding). If you can, try to detach it and attach it back to computer and copy pictures as quickly as you can. At this point, to answer your question, pictures might still be there, unless hard drive is completely dead.
Try to detach and attach it back or to same or different computer to see if it is recognized and transfer files/pictures as quickly as you can.
Let me know.
Thanks