A customer brought this drive to me. He told me it was dropped, he didn't know if it was running or not. I'm thinking belongs a friend of his.

I plugged it in via USB, the drive spun up and everything appeared to be fine, it showed up on my xp machine as a 300g drive. I tried copying the files and I got a windows - delayed write failed error. I googled the error along with WD and found out it's some kind of buffer error.

I tried GDB, chose unknown, got through phase 1 & 2 fine, got to stage three, the copying phase and about 2 min into that, I got the error again.

After looking online, I'm guessing it was dropped when it was off and something was damaged to where the buffering function quit working because before I copy, I can look through the whole directory tree. What I'm wondering is if I can disable this buffering process and if so, how.

Would hooking it up via 1934 fire wire work because (i'm thinking) that's a direct hook up to the HD? If so I'm going to need to find a firewire cable.

Would removing the HD and hooking it up direct to my motherboard work or does this have the chip encrypting it in the enclosure?

I'd like to thank you for your time in reading this and any responses in advance.

Dave

I would say that the drive now has media issues (bad sectors).

STOP messing about with it, or it will die.

Ideally take to a pro which shouldn't be too expensive AT THIS STAGE, or if the data isn't important then clone the drive with a non-windows sector image like dd_rescue or media tools pro (not a windows based sw like ghost), then run GDB from the clone.

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