Recovering data from failed Maxtor One Touch II drive

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 10/11/05, Tim Vaughan <talltim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I own a 100GB Maxtor USB external drive.  It has just failed, only
> making beeping and clicking sounds when I turn it on
> I realise that it may be a long shot, but are there any Linux disk
> utilities that could analyse the drive to see if any of the data may
> be recoverable?  It's ext3 formatted.

It *may* be possible to read data from it by removing the internal IDE
drive from it and instaiing the drive into your computer, making it an
internal drive. If the failure is in the electronics of the external
enclosure, that should fix it.

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Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
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