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Need troubleshooting assistance please with a Simpletech SimpleDrive
Model 90000-40479-002
DC Adapter12V 1.5 A
S/N 0510003913
The drive was left on for an extended period of time and may
have overheated.
When the drive letter is clicked, the response states that I
need to format the disk.
The drive now makes a noise as if it is spinning but the noise
is louder than the noise made by an identical drive that I also own.
XP and Vista cannot read any
information on the drive.
The drive cannot be read so that a Windows diskcheck cannot
be performed.
Properties of the drive show 0 free space and 0 used space
I tried an alternative power supply from an identical drive
– no success
I tried an alternative USB wire from an identical drive – no
success
Using a forensic tool I acquired an image of the device that
shows the following
Image.dd
Type of file: DD File
Size 4,194,300 KB
The forensics tool provides the following report about the
drive:
Image.dd_audit
Forensic Acquisition Utilities, 1, 0, 0, 1035
dd, 3, 16, 2, 1035
Command Line: dd.exe if=\\.\PhysicalDrive2 of="E:\1.
acuired simpletech\image.dd" conv=noerror --md5sum --verifymd5 --md5out="E:\1. acuired
simpletech\image.dd.md5" --log="E:\1. acuired simpletech\image.dd_audit.log"
Microsoft Windows: Version 5.1 (Build 2600.Professional
Service Pack 3)
11/10/2008 11:18:37
(UTC)
11/10/2008 05:18:37
(local time)
Disk: HDS72251 6VLAT20 (S/N )
Geometry:
Cylinders: 319120
Tracks per
Cylinder: 16
Sectors per
Track: 63
Bytes per Sector: 512
Total Size: 160836480 KB
Media Type: Fixed hard disk media
Partition Information:
Partition
Count: 4
Style: MBR
Signature: 65549EE8
Partition: 1
Starting
Offset: 0000000000007e00
Length: 0000164694749184
Type: IFS
Bootable? No
SOURCE: simpletech 320 gb
It has to do with the way computers count. Computers count in binary where we count in decimal.
Hard drive makers list there drives capacities in the decimal format, where windows lists it in it's binary format.
Wikipedia has a good explanation.
Also, the drive may have some preinstalled software on it that could be taking up a bit of space (it's usually not much).
SOURCE: simpletech 250G
SimpleTech has problems with their controller board. The HDD inside probably still works fine. You might want to get an external chassis and take the hard drive from the SimpleTech and put it into the external chassis. You will need a sata one.
SOURCE: SimpleTech SimpleDrive Pininfarina 320GB Power up problem
It could be that it's internal power supply burnt out,
in which case the drive itself could still be fine.
Try opening up the external case, and removing the drive.
Once you do, plug it in to your computer directly using its SATA cables, and see if that works.
Hope I helped,
Tom
SOURCE: SimpleDrive 160 GB drive is recognized by XP, but
The drive was damaged during the interuption. This has happened to alot of my flash drives and there is not way to fix it. You can, however, replace the hard drive in the case. Open the case and you will see a small laptop hard drive (that's all it is), purchase a new replacement and throw it in there.
SOURCE: Kindly let me know the method to recover data from
I seriously doubt the integrity of this question as any forensics Dept would know how to do this.
There are plenty of data recovery programs on the net that will do the job.
There are two options of adapter (see below) both will work 
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