I have a 500 gig Buffalo HD-PNTU3 external drive that I use for archived data. At this point the drive is used to access older files, nothing new has been written to it for a while. It's roughly at 80% capacity.
Recently it's been harder to access the data in the drive. Under the suspicion that the USB port or electronics may be failing, I removed the drive from the external case an put it into a generic external case. However when I try to access the drive, I see an intial set of activity, then nothing.
Now, it could very well be that the drive, a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 mechanical drive, may have failed, but I find this a bit hard to believe because the drive is rarely used and just sits in storage for the most part.
So before I write this drive, and data on it, off, I started wondering if perhaps Buffalo may have added it's own firmware to drive so it only works with it's interfacing electronics. Is this a possibility? If so, is there a way to bypass this so I can access the data on the drive?
Thanks for any info on this.
Recently it's been harder to access the data in the drive. Under the suspicion that the USB port or electronics may be failing, I removed the drive from the external case an put it into a generic external case. However when I try to access the drive, I see an intial set of activity, then nothing.
Now, it could very well be that the drive, a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 mechanical drive, may have failed, but I find this a bit hard to believe because the drive is rarely used and just sits in storage for the most part.
So before I write this drive, and data on it, off, I started wondering if perhaps Buffalo may have added it's own firmware to drive so it only works with it's interfacing electronics. Is this a possibility? If so, is there a way to bypass this so I can access the data on the drive?
Thanks for any info on this.
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