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Hi everyone
So, some time ago I purchased a Fantom 80gb firewire hard drive. Just recently, the drive stopped loading to my desktop. When I flip the switch, the drive powers up and sounds like it's loading, but it won't show up on my desktop. Same deal on another computer, too. When I run System Profiler, I can see that the drive is being recognized, but it still won't load.
I read about some similar sounding problems where people have bad power supplies or whatever, and that replacing the enclosure and power supply fixed the problem. So I tried that. The drive still doesn't work, though it does still show up in System Profiler.
I am at a loss as to what I can try here. There's a lot of files on the drive which I would (of course) like to save, but I'd like to try to do it myself if I can. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Phil
So, some time ago I purchased a Fantom 80gb firewire hard drive. Just recently, the drive stopped loading to my desktop. When I flip the switch, the drive powers up and sounds like it's loading, but it won't show up on my desktop. Same deal on another computer, too. When I run System Profiler, I can see that the drive is being recognized, but it still won't load.
I read about some similar sounding problems where people have bad power supplies or whatever, and that replacing the enclosure and power supply fixed the problem. So I tried that. The drive still doesn't work, though it does still show up in System Profiler.
I am at a loss as to what I can try here. There's a lot of files on the drive which I would (of course) like to save, but I'd like to try to do it myself if I can. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Phil