[matt1752]

Hello all, I am at my wits end and i wonder if anyone can help. I have a 500GB external iomega hard drive. I had only used it a handful of times to back up such things as holday snaps and my itunes music and video library. This was basically to free up my laptops memory.
I then plugged into the usb port on my PS3 console and found it was in FAT32 so dragged game saves across to do the same thing for my PS3. I then used it to drag music to my iphone and left it for a week, however now the PS3 wont recognise it and nor will my computer , and i have no idea why not.
There is power to the hard drive via external 12v power source and the blue light on it shows that power goes to it, but when plugged to any other console or laptop it does not show signs of being read.
Any one able to shed light on this and help with an answer?

matt1752

[bboy0001]

Hmm, your in a bit of a pickle mate have you tried plugging it in and going to device manager and check if there is no problems and it is up to date.

[matt1752]

yeah I have tried that already but when I go into device manager with the hard drive connected it does not show up in the list at all.

[win2kpro]

Remove the drive from the enclosure and install it temporarily in a desktop machine. If a desktop machine can read the drive, the problem is in the Iomega drive to USB adapter.

[matt1752]

As someone with only limited computer understanding, how do i do that??

[win2kpro]

I suggest that you take the external drive to a repairer and have them remove the drive and install it in a machine to see if the data can be accessed.

If the data can be accessed by a repairer, then the cost shouldn't be too bad, perhaps $100-$300 dependent upon the amount of data that needs to be recovered, and if the data can be simply recovered by installing the drive in a new enclosure.

If a repairer cannot access the data and the drive needs to be sent to a service that specializes in data recovery the cost could be quite high, and you would need to determine if the value of the data to be recovered would be worth the cost.

[matt1752]

thanks very much for that, i think i have exhausted all other options at this stage.

matt 1752