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| Fantom External Hard Drives; solved a problem I was having | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 15 2009, 02:51 PM (187 Views) | |
| KeAoS | Mar 15 2009, 02:51 PM Post #1 |
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I recently purchased a 500GB External HD for backups and archiving. It is a Fantom Titanium II  . It can be connected by firewire or usb 2.0. Worked great for about two weeks. After backing up all my data and not using it for a while I went to reinstall a program and the drive said the file was corrupt. I found the program on the internet so I deleted it off the HD and continued what I was doing. After rebooting my computer the drive would no longer show. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it would make the sound as if it was recognized, but would then follow up a second later with the unplugged sound. I went to safely remove hardware and it still came up as being attached. Trying to stop it caused the system to hang until I used the task manager to close srh menu. I turned the drives power off and unplugged the firewire cable. Hooked it up via USB and tryed again, nothing. Unplugged everything, rebooted the computer, plugged it in as USB. Nothing... WTF!  Now I was about to get pissed and throw it across the room but then I thought to my self: Ya know, It's not working.... so fuck the warranty.... time for surgery. I carefully removed the warranty void sticker anyway so I can put it back on  , and opened her up. I was hoping to transplant it into my other enclosure and see if the enclosure is the problem or if it is the drive itself. After removing the case I extracted a 500GB Western Digital that appeared in pretty good shape. No loose parts nothing floating around inside. I looked at the back and noticed that the  who installed this thing didn't even put the jumper on it  . It was left setup as a single drive master. I dugg around and found the very last left over jumper I had and set the drive to cable select. Put it back together, put the warranty sticker back on  , and now it is working good as new, all data intact, and the computer is reading and writing to it just fine.This was posted because after google searching I found many people with similiar problems with their fantom externals. Many threads in different places but not a single one with a solution. Hopefully this helps anyone having such problems.  Here is to smooth sailing! 
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| TJSEVEN | Mar 15 2009, 06:56 PM Post #2 |
OZ ... The Great and Powerful!!
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Another trick for USB devices that go invisible is to uninstall your USB controllers and let them re-install on reboot.
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THE BLACK PEARL with a new sail! AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo Core 2MB L2 cache S939 Overclocked to something or other this week! ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 MOBO (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 1 AGP, 1 Future CPU Port, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN) 3 Gig G.SKILL PC3200 DUAL DDR SDRAM and other Stuff....! ZOOM>>>ZOOM>>> I ALWAYS SAY," IF YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO OVERCLOCK THEN IT ISN'T REALLY AN OVERCLOCK!!" | |
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| Tazman | Mar 15 2009, 10:14 PM Post #3 |
AVAST YE ... DEAD MEN DON'T BITE!
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But then he would not get to feel the rush when he surgically removed the warranty void sticker. 
Edited by Tazman, Mar 15 2009, 10:15 PM.
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| TJSEVEN | Mar 15 2009, 11:11 PM Post #4 |
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OZ ... The Great and Powerful!!
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Tis true!
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THE BLACK PEARL with a new sail! AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo Core 2MB L2 cache S939 Overclocked to something or other this week! ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 MOBO (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 1 AGP, 1 Future CPU Port, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN) 3 Gig G.SKILL PC3200 DUAL DDR SDRAM and other Stuff....! ZOOM>>>ZOOM>>> I ALWAYS SAY," IF YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO OVERCLOCK THEN IT ISN'T REALLY AN OVERCLOCK!!" | |
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