What do you do if the Hard Drive dies?
1259725
Buy another one, a different product. Costco is an idea or Sam's Club. I would never recommend CIB to anyone.
1259726
I would call the company & try to get another one, or just buy another system. I record my video on my desktop computer. Much easier to work with, never look at my recorder video.
1259727
I have this system and it's been working very well for 4 years on the same hard drive. If the hard drive fails, just get another one and the system will automatically configure it. Very easy!
1259728
I would buy a new one if I had it for a long time.The new ones are more up to date.
807854
This decice should do the trick for you, as long as the old hard drive is not damaged
1092119
All hard disk drives have spinning platters, bearings, and other moving parts, all subject to mechanical wear. Your external drive will last longer if you un-plug it while not in use. Windows 7 will eventually shut down ALL HDD's attached to the computer that are not being used; both internal and external, however, this could take about 20 minutes or so. It is best to unplug your external HDD. Steve (Electrical Engineer)
1759299
Assuming the problem you had is not with your hard disk (it is still spinning, no head crash.) This is exactly what you need. After you connect the cable, one side to your hard drive, the other side to the USB slot on your laptop, your old hard drive will become just another drive on the laptop. You can do whatever you want with it. I even used it as another drive to back up my data.
2003896
I am not sure. If the hard drive won't boot at all then no, but if it's just like the operating system crashed but the hard drive still works then yes
258045
I have found that if I unplugged the hard drive from my computer, and then plug it back in, the files appear on the hard drive again. So now I just leave it unpugged all of the time and only hook it up to my computer when I need to copy something over. I also called Western Digital back last year and they were willing to take it back and send me a new one, so if it's still under warranty you may want to try that.
914719
Never had that issue with this item. try unplugging all cables and then try plugging the drive into the wall, with out any cables to the computer. If the problem persists, contact WD. Hopefully you are still under warranty, and they can get you a replacement.
769184
Menu ,Advanced, Reboot... Just that simple... Or to format hard drive Go to menu, Device, Highlight your hard drive, then format.
1853353
Backup your vital files, and do a clean install. Aka... boot from the server disc, format the drive, and use it as a server os, not a workstation. Installing over something is not really a viable path, in my humble opinion. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/install-configure-2.aspx
267951
yes, put the hard drive in an external enclosure to convert it into an external hard drive
1196597
Any new hard drive should work just fine. Look at pcpartpicker.com for a good resource to piece together compatible parts. Its an excellent site that allows you to choose your parts one by one, only showing other compatible parts.
2210076
Lacie will send you a replacement if the drive doesn't work. If under warranty they will respond quickly and send you a shipping label to send back the damage drive. In the past they did have a service to rescue the media, but its costly unless you have everything backed up.
398549
Call them. Always have 2 backups! I lost a lot of data with that hard drive, mine failed after a short time
760795
The Dell Support website (support.dell.com) has service manuals for all its laptops (downloadable for free). You can just download the manual for this one. That will give you step-by-step instructions on how to replace the hard drive. Just buy a replacement drive, any size you want, and install it with the instructions in the manual.
2268186
Exchange the drive for a new one ? The one you have is obviously bad....good luck
1678760
It depends on what failed on the HDD. If it is the PCB you can buy another of the same model HDD, making sure the label states it uses the same (or sometimes very close revision of) firmware, then swap the PCB from the working drive to the dead one. If it is the motor or actuator arm that failed and IF it uses only one platter, you can send it off to a data recovery service and they can buy the same drive as mentioned above, remove the platter from the dead HDD and put it in the new one, or if it has multiple platters they can read one platter at a time and reconstruct the data. If it is the platter itself, the data is usually unrecoverable. Based on the basic nature of your question I suspect any recovery is beyond your abilities, that a "dead" HDD will be no more recoverable than you can resurrect a dead person. Sorry to state this but that is why making backups is so important.
1211016
I appreciate this very much! One of the comments on this hard drive had me wondering if I could hook it in with what I have, so thank you.