20 Most Recent Fantom Drives 120 GB Hard Drive - Page 5 Questions & Answers

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.
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If the drive is clicking its usually the sign of a failing drive. If it still has warranty try and return it for a new drive.

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electic extensions or just replace them they are probably old and faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error hope this helps

Fisrst replace PSU test all leads that attach to your hard drive including the ones from your motherboard and eltrical+elec extensions make sure they have a secure connection or just replace them with new leads

check to see if the cable is pluged into the drive all the way also if you have been inside the computer maybe switching out drives (guessing) you could of knocked the pin off the drive and switched it from master to slave

Get a copy of Disk Warrior to try to recover you hard drive, or possibly your information off your drive. The red light indicates a disk fault and the manual for this drive is really not much help.
You can look in the "About this Mac" to see if the drive is listed. If so, you may have success recovering the information.Purchase Disk Warrior and see what you can salvage off the drive.

Hi. If they check that properly that's mean that you have to replace electronic part of you hard drive. Easiest way is to buy broken one with working electronic and then replace it. This is difficult but its only way to recover your data from drive. If you are lucky you can try remove that unknown drive from system and than plug you hard drive again but to different USB port.

It will only plug in in the correct way. Study the connectors and you will see it.

Keep a backup on your hard drive or a backup. The backup system is a free service supplied by your internet provider. If you use it daily or after every update, there will never be an issue.

Could be a phishing attempt, unless you have an account with that bank.