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Today 20.12.2013

time 10.30 in the morning

My external hard drive has stopped working. I've had it for one year and I'd like some info if you can make it work again.

My computer won't detect it, not in device manager or in any place I have been look for it.

It's a Buffalo 2 Terabytes HD-LBU2, if someone has had the same problem and fixed it, please give me a answer. I have over 1.5TB movies on that hard drive and I would not like to loose them and I have some important school work on it too.

My last external hard drive had the exact same problem and it stopped working after one year too. So if someone can help me with it please say.

I've been searching on the internet for hours now, can't find anything.

I will try a hard drive dock as soon as I can though and see if that works.

-Blade/eXtincT

Depends how it has failed - if it's just the controller board you should be able to remove the hard drive and as you say, shove it in a dock.

If the hard drive itself has died then you can try the freezer trick but you need to be sure it is definitely the HDD before you try that.

Well, I'm gonna go to the city on monday and go to the nearest computer shop and see if they can test it in a dock. It detects the computer though, as soon as i plug it in the computer it starts. I can hear it's mechanical noise as it is starting

If it starts that just means it is receiving USB power, not an awfully positive sign really as this just means the wires to the HDD aren't severed or broken. I would do as you're about to do -- take it to a shop and try it in a computer rather than through the dock. If it spontaneously stops working without any file corruption then it's likely it's just the controller board.