I'm feeling pretty good right now...
Last Wednesday, I was having trouble transferring files between hard drives on my imaging computer and after several attempts where nothing happened and I had to terminate the file manager program with the task manager, I figured I would reboot. That was when Windows Update decided to force the install of the latest updates. Once that was all done I moved the files like normal and then wanted to copy some image stack files from an external hard drive to one of the internal ones so I could finish processing them.
The computer couldn't seem to detect the 8TB Seagate external drive. I started copying incomplete image files to this drive in July and it had just over 7TB of data, all my unfinished work for this season! I had just started another drive in early October and when I tried that one the computer couldn't see it either. During late 2020 and early 2021 none of these drives were available and these were the 1st I have gotten since then. All my older drives still work fine. I tried 6 other USB connections on the computer and also several new cables.
The light on the drive case turns on when I connect the drive and I can feel faint vibrations in the drive, but the computer just does not see it. I also tried plugging the drives into 3 of our laptops, but no connection worked.
I ordered an e-SATA to SATA cable and pried the external drive enclosure open and was able to connect via the cable to an e-SATA port on the computer and by damn, it worked! That terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach is gone! The computer say it will be finished backing up the 1st drive at about 11:00 tomorrow morning.
The price of these *TB drives has jumped up from about $120 to $190 and I paid $230 for the one in July. The 2 replacements today were $190. I'm not overjoyed about this extra expense, but saving all this work was worth it to me.
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