ext hdd

Which are any reliable external hard disks for backing up personal and work data, these days, in your personal experience? My old Maxtor hard disk (3TB) is giving signs it could die soon, so I need a new HD for backup my data. I was searching information and reading mixed reviews about WB and...

I have a transcend store jet external HDD which suddenly stopped working. I checked Disk Management and there it was showing as uninitialized. I clicked on initialize disk and an error pops up saying Data Error (cyclic redundancy check). I had almost 500gb important data stored on that drive and...

My WD elements has stopped working, it was plugged in and powered up but not in use when my 15 month old boy got hold of it and bent the USB port, I now get no response from the HDD at all. Is this fixable?

Hello, I have a dell laptop that had gotten liquid spilt on it, the laptop doesn't turn on. However I took the hard drive out of the laptop and plug it into another PC with USB connector the drive shows up but it shows empty. I need help, I have all my files on the drive, Thanks. Drive type...

To all on community, Looking for any help as to why a drive is not showing up on my PC. Bought a brand new 5TB Seagate external HDD. When I plug into my desktop, the computer makes the "ding" sound when it is is plugged in, but the drive is no where to be found. The drive shows up in the device...

As the title says; my external HDD is making weird clicking noises. It came from my old PC and I've been using it for 2 months now and there hasn't been a single problem with it until now. This is what it's been doing. I had to pick it apart to see what was wrong, but my inexperienced eye wasn't...

I recently salvaged my old hard drive from my dead PC and bought a case to turn it into an external drive. I then used my laptop to format it to NTFS. I wanted to copy larger files to the HDD, and there were no problems whatsoever in that process. However, moving or copying those larger files...