Hoping I can get some insight into a hardware issue I am having. I have an external drive that has been working perfectly for years until this morning. When I go select the drive in "my computer" it appears for a couple seconds then disappears. First step was to power it down, restart the computer, same result. Then tried to hook it up to another computer with the same result. You can hear it spooling up, the icon appears, then it winds down and the icon disappears. You can, if you are quick, select the drive and see the contents, even start to load a file, but then it's like the power goes off. Seconds later it spools back up. It's almost like it overheats after 10 seconds and shuts itself off, but I left it unplugged for a long time in case it was a heat issue, and the same thing happens.
Any thoughts or troubleshooting ideas to determine the cause or how to fix?
Thanks in advance,
Eljaca
Any thoughts or troubleshooting ideas to determine the cause or how to fix?
Thanks in advance,
Eljaca