Daniele Mazzoni

Haha I like the defibrillator example :) I was referring to the moisture that can form inside the case. By the way I did it, left packed in the frezeer for a while, but nothing changed. I used others diagnostic utilities too, like MHDD bios version and gsmartcontrol, but in every case the result is the same.... no detection at all. Finally I thought (hopefully) it could be the mini-sata to usb card inside the case that can be broken, so i dismounted the HD (picture attached) and ordered a mini-sata...

Hi Gary, Thank you for the answer It's strange because the disk failed at the very beginning of the copy process, it was not so heated. I'll try the freezer trick as last option cause I read it can be fatal for the disk. Do you know if there's any kind of diagnostic tool that avoid the disk to being recognized by windows? I mean some kind of direct access tool I can start outside windows, in DOS for example Thank you again

Hi all Hi have a real big issue with my old usb Maxtor basic portable, full of precious data After years of great experience with TRUECRYPT, today i tried to uncrypt and copy the data to another laptop with VERACRYPT, using truecrypt compatibily option. It was mounted and it started the copy fine, but at some point the hard drive was automatically dismounted and, since then, it's not being recognized in any windows 10 laptop I have at home. In disk management there's no trace of the drive. I tried...