Iomega Screenplay Director

sajman

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I have the Screenplay Director 2TB. Let me start by saying that it is a piece of rubbish. I have actually had it packed away because I refused to use it ... it is slow in every respect.
Anyway, I have decided that I cannot let a 2TB hard drive go to waste. Is there any way that I can remove the hard drive and reuse it in another case?
I am nervous of just removing it from the case ... I read somewhere that the Iomega drive is specially formatted and can only be read via the Iomega interface? Is this correct? or Can I just rip out the drive and stick it into a standard case?
 
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OK - There is a long answer and a short answer to this. This is the short answer! Iomega was a good company but their fortunes started to decline and they started to cut costs by manufacturing products with cheap and nasty components. When the amount of customer complaints rose and sales dropped the company was merged into Lenovo (a fiddle) and Iomega products discontinued. Now when you go to Lenovo's website for product info, software, upgrades or support it says that it "doesn't know" Iomega. That is how they have dealt with this issue. So basically the circuit board had failed. The power light is on but the hard drive doesn't work any more.

Take a medium screwdriver and put it into the side of the unit where the seam is and gently...
OK - There is a long answer and a short answer to this. This is the short answer! Iomega was a good company but their fortunes started to decline and they started to cut costs by manufacturing products with cheap and nasty components. When the amount of customer complaints rose and sales dropped the company was merged into Lenovo (a fiddle) and Iomega products discontinued. Now when you go to Lenovo's website for product info, software, upgrades or support it says that it "doesn't know" Iomega. That is how they have dealt with this issue. So basically the circuit board had failed. The power light is on but the hard drive doesn't work any more.

Take a medium screwdriver and put it into the side of the unit where the seam is and gently push it in and turn it. The cheap plastic unit will prise apart (although the little plastic holding pins may break). Inside you will find a perfectly normal hard drive connected to a tiny circuit board. Pull the hard disk out of the connector gently and put it on one side. Go to any computer store and buy an external USB housing for a SATA drive (they also have these for IDE drives still). This should cost no more than 9/10 $/€ but the components are of much better quality. Plug your extracted hard disk into the new housing and plug it in and connect the drive to your computer by USB and 'viola' all should be well and the speed of transfer should be OK also. It's the components used by Iomega that produces the problem.
 
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