Western Digital Caviar WD2500BB 250 GB Hard Drive "turn off" Questions

...now I can't get read it to get my files off of it. Just a thought- Make sure all your connections are hooked up before turning anything on. Turn on the external drive BEFORE turning on your

...turn off system restore for the drive click right on my computer>system restore , click on your external Hard drive click settings and press turn off system restore on this drive.That should free up ...

...turn my drive on either with the IDE cable plugged into the drive or not it starts spinning the drive like normal, and then it starts going through a series of clicking. It's the arm for the heads ...

...Turn the computer off. Disconnect the AC power-cord. Check that the "data" cable between the SATA drive and the motherboard is tightly connected at both ends. Check that the "power" cable into the ...

turn off the non-working computer. 7. If possible connect the computer to the internet, if not possible you can use wi-fi, but it may take longer. 8. Connect the non-working computer to the drive with

...If not, double check jumper settings for both drives. Turn off compter and change settings. When computer can see both drives in BIOS, save it and let the compter continue to boot. Hope this

Turn Off the computer, now as soon as you hit the power button, keep on holding "Alt" key & keep on tapping "F10 key,ie: Alt+F10, it will open the recovery console ,select full factory restore and

...hi i have wd200 hd. it was clicking with regular click click click so i figured i had a problem. i turned it off last night and rebooted this a.m. now i have click click....click click....etc like ...

...turn off the pc. after that when i turn it on it start working but the problem remains help me guys open a command prompt, go to programs accessories and click on command prompt, type in chkdsk /f/r ...

My system was turned off 4 times in a day for some electricity issues. and when i started it is not starting when i go to bios post they showing a error S.M.A.R.T capable but command failure. please ...