Recovering data from failed Maxtor One Touch II drive

[Tim Vaughan]

> 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.

Ok, thanks.  I'll have a look.  I was hoping for something
non-invasive as getting a refund probably requires me not to have
voided the warranty.  I'll talk to the place I bought it from about
what sort of data recovery I'm permitted to do to it!

Tim