My friend has an external hard drive that all of a sudden can't be found by pretty much any machine. It doesn't show up in BIOS or on my Mac or in my VMWare Virtual Windows. So, the first thing I did was take it out of its enclosure and hook it up to a new controller, but still no dice. Also, now that it's out of its enclosure I can hear it making an odd clicking sound? I'd be 100% willing to just tell my friend that the disk is dead, but its name appears in VMWARE. When I plug it into my Mac while VMWARE is running, a pop up asks if I want to open it in Windows or Mac, as is my setting for USB Media:
Then, it appears in the 'Safely Remove Hardware' List:
But it doesn't appear at all in Disk Management:
In Device Manager it doesn't list it as a Hard Drive, which makes sense:
But it does appear as a USB Mass storage device:
The mass storage device is the controller, right? But that doesn't account for how VMWARE and Windows both see the drive as being connected, as evident by how VMWARE has the name of the drive, both in the pop-up and in the toolbar:
Like I said, I'm like 90% sure it's a dead hard drive, but the fact VMWARE sees the name(with both controllers) seems odd, so I'm hoping, for my friend's sake, the data's redeemable.
Then, it appears in the 'Safely Remove Hardware' List:
But it doesn't appear at all in Disk Management:
In Device Manager it doesn't list it as a Hard Drive, which makes sense:
But it does appear as a USB Mass storage device:
The mass storage device is the controller, right? But that doesn't account for how VMWARE and Windows both see the drive as being connected, as evident by how VMWARE has the name of the drive, both in the pop-up and in the toolbar:
Like I said, I'm like 90% sure it's a dead hard drive, but the fact VMWARE sees the name(with both controllers) seems odd, so I'm hoping, for my friend's sake, the data's redeemable.
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