Is my Portable HD pooched?

[Jayems]

Hey guys,

I was moving some video for school onto my WD portable HD, and it screwed up the video. It became pixilated and digitized in places, with the screen going green and no audio. Anyway, I tried formatting the card, and that made it 10xs worse. now, it won't recognize the thing.. so i put it on my mac, did the disk utility, partitioned the drive, and got it to show up. I tried moving the video over again, and same thing, its all screwed up. I tried moving just regular files, and it says that it can not write some files...

i move it to my PC, finally get it to be recognized, download the "restore" program, but even that says "error, can not write to disk"

I have the recipt, and its from costco, so they'll take anything back, but i really needed it for tomorrow, can anyone suggest anything?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=261

Thats the model i have.

[renny]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Hey guys,

I was moving some video for school onto my WD portable HD, and it screwed up the video. It became pixilated and digitized in places, with the screen going green and no audio. Anyway, I tried formatting the card, and that made it 10xs worse. now, it won't recognize the thing.. so i put it on my mac, did the disk utility, partitioned the drive, and got it to show up. I tried moving the video over again, and same thing, its all screwed up. I tried moving just regular files, and it says that it can not write some files...

i move it to my PC, finally get it to be recognized, download the "restore" program, but even that says "error, can not write to disk"

I have the recipt, and its from costco, so they'll take anything back, but i really needed it for tomorrow, can anyone suggest anything?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=261

Thats the model i have.

Do you have it formatted so that your PC can write to it? Try reformatting, does it happen to other drives you plug in?

[Hack&Lube]

I think that's going to be problematic, especially for any of the real diagnostic tools for HDDs since USB support at boot isn't native. If the operating system isn't recognizing it, something may have gone wrong during your format through the OS.

If it were me, I'd would crack it open, take out the drive (probably laptop HDD) and hook it up directly to the computer with an adapter and boot up with a floppy loaded with WD's HDD diagnostic/recovery tools.

[MacDougalbry]

If you are attaching it via a USB hub, ditch the hub and attach directly to your PC. Check/update your USB drivers.

Also, odds are that your video playback issues were due to insufficient USB bandwidth, i.e. the file may have been fine, your USB connection was just not fast enough to play the video real-time.

[Jayems]

Thanks for the tips, i'll try it out.