Top 20 IO Magic Corporation GigaBank (I250HD35) 250 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive Questions & Answers

The harddrive has crashed very hard to fix give it to a professional to fix if not its already condemned

Go to My Computer right click and select properties and under Device manager click under Disk Drives uninstall the drive. If you cannot see your hard drive then select scan for hardware changes. Also when you start your computer click on F12 and go into BIOS settings and check if you can see your hard drives

Try this OMagic Cables (bottom left CP1205) You may need to write (email) to them re European distributor/retailer

I had a similar problem. I found out for me I had to many HDD's. Once I disconnected the other HDD's (except C: drive) I was able to initialize it. Let me know if this works for you.

Clicking Hard drive When a hard disk makes a clicking sound and the computer does not detect it then the hard disk is faulty. This is commonly known as "The click of death". There is no way of fixing this hard drive, if you need to recover your data, then there are companies that can recover data off faulty hard drives BUT it will cost you an arm and a leg for their services.

If you are talking about the HDD pasword, you can do a complete intall of the operational system which will remove the password and all personal data. But if that is not a option go to www.ebay.com Type: HDD password a list of sellers will be presented leaving you the choice that works for you.

People often feel panic when I see this. If I format the drive, will I lose all my data? If not, how could I get access to my files?My take is that you may have to format the drive and then use data recovery software to recover your files.Here's some information about file recovery, think you need to take a look, very usefulhttp://www.asoftech.com/adr/

It's hard to say from your description what the problem is but the first thing to do is determine the condition of the drive. You can check if there are problems with the drive using the free trial version of http://www.hdtune.com/

If it checks out ok then you can try to recover your data with Recuva it's free http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Or if you need data recovery help this a good choice for low cost and fast data recovery. All data recovery work is performed remotely over the Internet from a boot cd that you download and the best part is they just ask for donations if you are happy with the results: http://FreeDataRecovery.us

From your description it sounds like your GigaBank is damaged. You can check if there are problems with the drive using the free trial version of http://www.hdtune.com/

If it checks out ok then you can try to recover your data with Recuva it's free http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Or if you need data recovery help this a good choice for low cost and fast data recovery. All data recovery work is performed by an experienced tech remotely over the Internet from a boot cd that you download and the best part is they just ask for donations: http://FreeDataRecovery.us

click start control panel administrive tools computer management device manager scroll down universal serial bus controllers you could see a yellow question mark?

right click to reinstall drivers

:if you can see your usb drive but its not working

ports(com&lpt)right click update driver if this fails to fix the problem

check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red white green black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems for a computer and its parts

click start control panel administrive tools ,computer management ,device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red x

right click to reinstall drivers

hope it helps you

Hi,
Unfortunately, those sound like the symptoms of a failing hard drive. If you cannot access the files on it, they may be gone for good. You may need to send your hard drive in to a data recovery service, but these are often expensive, time consuming, and are not guaranteed to recover all of your data. There are some tricks you can try as a last ditch effort, however.
It is recommended that you always keep back ups of your files.

try it on another system if it boots backup your data if it does not only option is data recovery company very expensive

Sounds like it has the "Click Of Death" if you have something on there that you really need it may be possible to run it for a short while after freezing it (wrapped in plastic film) if you're lucky. More than likely though it is destined for the bin.

Hello there,
Are you using Windows XP or Vista? Anyway, please try to assign a drive letter for your drive. Go to My Computer, right click that icon and then hit Manage. Go to Disk Management for XP and Storage for Windows Vista or 7. Locate the driver and then tell me the status. If it does not have a drive letter, simply right click on it and then select "Assign a Drive Letter" and then follow the wizard.
Let me know how that goes.

The external storage device has several major components:

* USB cable

* external power-supply

* disk-drive inside the enclosure

* USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

Try a different USB cable.
Try a different USB port on your computer.
Try a USB port on a different computer.

Take a multi-meter, and measure the output voltage/amperage of the power-supply,
and compare with the specifications on the label of the power-supply.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and attach it as a "slave" drive in a desktop computer, to see if bypassing the USB-to-disk-drive adapter bypasses the problem.

Look at the label on the disk-drive, for manufacturer, product-number, serial-number, and manufacture date. Access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status" to see if the warranty still is valid. If so, the drive can be replaced, at minimal cost to you.

Buy a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Search online for a professional "data recovery service". For a significant fee, they can repair your disk-drive, just long-enough to copy your files to a new disk-drive.

An external storage-device has four major components:

* the USB cable

* the power-adapter

* the disk-drive inside the enclosure

* the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

One of these components has failed.

Try a different USB cable.

Try connecting to a different USB port on your computer.

Try connecting to a USB port on a different computer.

Take a "multi-meter" and measure both the voltage and amperage output from the AC adapter, and compare with the specifications on the label on the adapter.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and then connect it as a "slave" disk-drive in a desktop computer, to see if it works at all.

Purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Get the part-number and serial-number from the label on your disk-drive, and access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status", to see if they will replace the device, at minimal cost to you.

There exist commercial "data recovery" services that can try to repair your device, just long-enough to rescue and copy your files. For example, see: https://services.seagate.com/index.aspx?lng=en-US for a "no data - no charge" guarantee.

Try connecting the external hard-drive to a different computer. If it still fails, and it is still under warranty, then exercise the warranty to get it replaced.

If the warranty has expired, open the case, and remove the disk-drive, disconnecting it from the USB-to-disk-drive adapter.

Connect the disk-drive as a "slave" disk-drive in some desktop computer, to see if the disk is recognized.
If it is, then the USB-to-disk-drive adapter has failed, and you could go to any computer-store to buy a new external case and adapter, and mount your disk-drive inside the new case, and work with your files.

If the disk-drive is not recognized, check the warranty on the disk-drive itself.

Hello

OK, at the link below you will be directed to a tip i wrote on this exact error.

Click HERE.

Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.

Kind regards
Andrea

The hard disk inside had died - and all it has needed for this to happen was just a shock.

thermal protection sensors may be malfunctioning.
Try cooling the unit with a fan.