Hi, I have a External USB HDD on like 300 GB which has stoped working

Does it show up in Windows disk management? Can you assign it a drive letter? Can you reformat it, since there is no data on it yet?

Also, you should check to see that you do not have the USB read only protection of Windows enabled, it is a single registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies The value 0 = not protected, 1 = read only.

have you got a backup copy of your data? please tell me you do

perhaps the caddy is dead (open it up remove the actual hdd from the shell use it direct if you have a pc)

does it show up in device manager?

apache_lives said:

have you got a backup copy of your data? please tell me you do

perhaps the caddy is dead (open it up remove the actual hdd from the shell use it direct if you have a pc)

does it show up in device manager?

LOL. Have you seen many posts where folks actually do have backup of their data?

Fixed it!, I downloaded Swissknife

apache_lives said:

have you got a backup copy of your data? please tell me you do

Yeah, I did say that i have nothing on the HDD