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Harddrive Failure or Hardware Failure?
My external harddrive is relatively new; no more than 2 years. It has been failing to be recognized my my PC and getting an I/O error when in Safe Mode. When not in safe mode, it just stops being recognized by my PC.
Explorer also has it labeled as a 7.27TB harddrive when it is 4TB
What i want to know is whether it is likely to be a hard drive problem (and that i need to have the data recovered) or if it is a hardware problem (and i can just remove it from the case somehow and insert it into another enclosure).
i have one of those devices that lets you insert a barebones harddrive to be accessed through USB; i can use that.
i have tried to access the drive using a different cable and a different computer and get the same results.
thanks