20 Most Recent Iomega (33600) 160 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive Questions & Answers

Hard drive have been known to have their motors fail. Sometimes you can power up the drive, and while it is connected twist the drive with a couple of quick twist around the axis of the platters. In this way you are imparting some momentum in the platters and this may be enough to move the motor and get the disk working. Otherwise you may need to send the drive to a recovery service $$$$

If the drive can be seen by device manager but not under MyComputer, right click my computer and go to "Manage". (Check out: rightclicking my computer icon on your desktop, select disk manager)
You should see your hard drive either lister as foreign or not initialized. Ifforeign, it will give you an option to import and is not initialized, it willallow you to initialize it.
This will hand over drive management to the OS and you should be able to see itin My Computer.
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Your hard drive is probably dead. However there are stillhopes for hard drive datarecovery.
Put the hard drive in a plastic bag to be compatible for the freezer. Freezingsometimes works to revive a dying hard drive, at least for a shorttime(Probable just about 20 minutes), but be sure that the bag is sealedtightly so that condensation and ice crystals don't form. Put it in yourfreezer for 24 hours that will do the trick. While it's still cold, plug itinto your computer.And you may be able to view it in 'my computer'. And you mayact quickly,because you may only have 20 minutes to recover your data off itand after that the hard drive is completely dead.
If it fails, you will have to go to a recovery office where supply datarecovery service but let's hope not because it will cost you a lot of money andwhether they can recover data is not guaranteed.
Here is a tutorial to guide you how torecover hard drive data.

Hello, nappindylan.
With a screwdriver, you will be able to remove the shell, revealing your internal hard drive.
You will then see two cables, pull these two cables from the internal hard drive. There may also be further screws holding down the hard drive inside, remove those, as well.
You will then be able to pull the hard drive out from its case.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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 xright click to reinstall drivers or if you can see your usb but its not workingports(com&lpt)right click update driver sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable,just replace the cable of the hard disk, when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable everything should work fine again,

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 also make sure the computers Ram and Cmos battery are securely seatedif this fails to fix the problem you might have to install a usb 2 or 3 card they are cheap and easy to install you can buy these on Ebay very cheap hope this helps

Yourhard drive is properly dead.However there are stillhopes for hard drive data recovery.
Put the hard drive in a plastic bag to be compatible for the freezer. Freezingsometimes works to revive a dying hard drive, at least for a shorttime(Probable just about 20 minutes), but be sure that the bag is sealedtightly so that condensation and ice crystals don't form. Put it in your freezerfor 24 hours that will do the trick. While it's still cold, plug it into yourcomputer.And you may be able to view it in 'my computer'. And you may actquickly,because you may only have 20 minutes to recover your data off it andafter that the hard drive is completely dead.
If it fails, you will have to go to a recovery office where supply datarecovery service but let's hope not because it will cost you a lot of money andwhether they can recover data is not guaranteed.
Here is a tutorial to guide you how to recover data from hard drive.

Please try to connect it to a different PC. If the problem persists, the external unit might be faulty and should be returned for warranty if possible. If it works on the second PC, you can get drivers from http://www.iomega.com/

To totally reformat the hard drive which will delete everything off it go to your applications folder and then to the utilities folder and double-click on disk utility. In the left hand column select your drive then select the erase button once on the erase section select the format you want to format the drive in (if you are only going to use it on a mac select Mac OS Extended, if it is going to be used on both mac and PCs select MS-DOS (FAT)) then choose the name you want to call your drive and then select erase.

REMEMBER THIS WILL WIPE ALL THE FILES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE.

Hope this helps.

Hi check on the device manger id the hard drive is being received by the computer. If it is listed then re-install the driver for it.

If it is not listed on device manger , try a different cable, try a different USB port. Try it in another computer or xbox/ps3 to see if it can be read by them

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Re-install it into another caddy to make sure it not the caddy USB port damaged.

If the hard drive is making a loud noise, the hard drive may be damaged. It may also be the hard drive controller damaged.

Hi ,
Plug each drive in a USB plot of your computer and use a " copy to " or " drag and drop " way to transfer the files . It's like moving or copying files from one place to another on your HDD , just the same .
Best regards ,
fanaudi .

Yes, it is defective - send it back to the shop.

Hi, Do you use a MAC at your work? If so, most likely the USB HDD will be in HFS+ and windows is unable to read that file format without the help of third-party software like MacDrive ( LINK: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive )
Hope i was of any help. If so, please rate me. Thank you
PcSimples

Hey did u got Y cable with the drive or just normal cable. If you received the Y cable make sure you connect Both power( with the White bolt sticker) and data ends

this should just be a matter od plugging in the drive, if recognised, right click on the drive icon and format to ntfs.
If not recognised. Control Panel / Admin tools/ computer management / storage/ disc management.
Locate the drive (which will appear unallocated) right mouse click on it, then new simple volume and format

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.

You will need to format the drive to work with you Mac.
1. Open Disk Utility
2. Select Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
3. In the left hand column, click on the drive icon for the Iomega Hard Drive. Make sure you click on the high level icon, not the second level volume icon.
NOTE: For devices with 2 or more hard drives, please review the configuration settings to determine which volume type works best for you.
4. Select the Partition tab.
5. Change Volume Scheme from Current to 1 Partition.
6. Select the format type from the Format drop-down menu.
Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (recommended) or Mac OS Extended.
7. Click on the Options button.
8. Select the type of partition you want to use:
GUID Partition Table - for boot ability on Intel-based Macs
Apple Partition Map - for boot ability on PowerPC-based Macs
Master Boot Record - if you will use the drive on a PC as well as your Mac. Use this option ONLY if you selected PC-DOS as the format type.
CAUTION! In most cases, the computer will fail to format the drive as a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) partition using Master Boot Record. For best results, always choose GUID Partition Table (Intel) or Apple Partition Map (PowerPC).
9. Click OK.
10. Click Apply (10.5-10.6) or Partition (10.4). The drive is ready to use when the format completes.

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