IO Magic Corporation GigaBank - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

I had this with a new drive, think it's the firmware in the drive.Anyway the warehouse replaced the drive.

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

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Not sure if this will help, but was having the same problem. I separated the power cord to the AC adapter brick and reconnected it. My computer immediately recognized it!

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.

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

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/

The drive inside is dead. if you want your data back youll have to sent it to a data recovery centre.

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.