[X4U] LaCie Hard drive troubles

[faramineux]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Linda wrote:

> This is almost exactly my experience with external Maxtor drives. I  
> don't
> know what to make of it, other than back it up if you don't trust  
> it, and
> use it for short-term or transfer purposes, and reformat every now  
> and then.
>
> If it stops recognizing the mount point, and you have data on there  
> you
> need/want, you can use something like Prosoft Engineering's  
> DataRescue,
> which is a champ at recognizing data on a non-mounting disk.

All my data is saved several times. That's not a problem. But a drive  
which cannot be trusted is like a dead drive. That's what my sister  
said about her 5th husband.