![]() (2) On both the top and bottom of the drive there are plastic “catches” that must be pressed in to allow you to slide the outer case off the drive. Remove this sticker (mine was more like black paint that chipped off) and remove this screw. (1) There is a black sticker covering one screw securing the case. ![]() ![]() Click any of the images for a larger image. Here’s what I was looking for on the ‘net and did not find. After a little more research and some playing I did manage to disassemble the MyBook, recover my data, and return it to Western Digital (as pristine as possible so hopefully I did not obviously void any warranties – which would be ridiculous since I just wanted *MY* data back from *THEIR* broken drive). After reading a bit on the ‘net, common opinion was the power or USB on the MyBook was likely the cause – that these elements were not as robust as the drive itself. Western Digital sent me a replacement drive but told me that my data was lost unless I wanted to talk to their data recovery department and that it would most likely be costly. Horror! Of course I didn’t have everything backed up – time to start saving money for a second 500 gig drive I guess. One day I hooked it up to my computer and it would not power up (for the purposes of this post, the background as to why it might not boot up is irrelevant -)). This in turn prompts the bridge firmware to split the drive into two halves.I have a 500 gig Western digital MyBook external drive. It could be that your enclosure is receiving garbled Identify Device information from the Maxtor drive, and this garbled data may include a nonsensical capacity. This is to maintain compatibility with Windows XP which is limited to a maximum MBR partition size of 2TiB (for 512-byte block sizes). Do you have something like this?Įdit: ISTR that certain enclosures will enumerate a large (> 2TiB) HDD as two virtual physical drives, each having a capacity less than 2TiB. Some enclosures, eg WD's, will identify themselves as a VCD (Virtual CD) and a HDD. There has to be a problem with the enclosure, not the drive. I can't see how a single faulty HDD could make itself appear as two physical drives. This means that Windows thinks that there are two physical drives, and that neither drive has been partitioned. You say that "both showing as unallocated". That is, HD Sentinel thinks that there are two hard drives, not one. Did you do this?Īs for partitions, HD Sentinel is identifying two *physical* drives, not two *logical* volumes. You could identify the IC (eg JMicron, Initio, Cypress) by visual inspection, or by way of its Product ID and Vendor ID in Microsoft's UVCView utility:Ī Google search might then tell you whether your bridge is a problematic one.īTW, the drive must be jumpered as master. Some drives, including Western Digitals, don't play nicely with certain USB-PATA bridge ICs. Physical Disk Information - Disk: #2: hhhh hhhhhhhh. : 0 MB, 0 MB since installationĪverage Reads Per Day. Physical Disk Information - Disk: #1: hhhh hhhhhhhh. I'll tell you this much, I won't ever buy a Seagate drive knowing they acquired Maxtor.Īnyway, here's the HD Sentinel report content: This is the 2nd old Maxtor drive I've discovered to do this. Unless it's the USB/IDE interface that is distorting the data from the drive (not really sure). It's really weird how these Maxtor drives lose all kinds of on-board information, like the vendor and serial number. I got different values compared to last time, but the 2nd partition is still showing over 800Gb. It's also a 20Gb drive, not 80Gb as I'd thought. ![]() For reference, the drive is a MAXTOR 92049U6 DiamondPlus 6800. Impressive details where it came to my internal drive. In any case, I installed it and ran the report. Is this hard drive absolutely toast, or is there any chance of fixing it? Over 600 hours to surface scan just doesn't make any sense. Attempting to run something like ARAX Disk Doctor starts scanning as if the drive is as large as Windows thinks it is. I'm thinking this is reflective of a serious media failure and that my odds of recovering any data isn't good. I can't find anything about it on the Internet. One appears as 987Gb and the other as over 1Tb! This is impossible, as it's only a 20Gb drive. They are both showing as unallocated, but what's far worse is that they are much larger than they could physically be. This was expected as I remembered having partitioned it. When I got it connected, the device showed up as 2 disks. I used a USB to IDE interface to get it hooked up to my Windows Vista 圆4 computer. So, I shelved it to deal with at a later date. I have an old Maxtor 20Gb ( edited) disk drive that suffered a directory structure problem over 6 years ago that I could not recover with the software available back then. ![]()
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