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O.P. External hard drive failure (?) - anything I can do?
My external hard drive just stopped responding a while ago when I was opening a torrent file with uTorrent (the files get saved on the external drive). I have tried unplugging it, and plugging it back in (several times), switching it off and on again (several times), rebooting the computer with the drive on. None of that has helped. Windows gives me the USB Device Not Recognized error.
As the very unhelpful user manual says, the drive model is Buffalo DriveStation HD-HSU2-UC Series. Right now both the power and access lights are on steadily and the device is ominously silent. When I had just rebooted, it was making relatively loud humming (?) kinda noise and the Access light wasn't on (it was still on during reboot, though).
Anything else non-tech-savvy that I can try before saying goodbye to my beloved film collection and going out to buy a new external drive?
Thanks.
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