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Would it even be worth a shot or possible that maybe the USB/firewire cable connecting the drive to the computer went bad and I could try replacing that first? I don't know if that makes sense because when I unplug this wire, my drive powers down, so it looks as if the drive works, but then...

Last night a very harsh and random lightning strike did 2 things: 1.) I heard an extremely loud pop, which I thought was my ethernet port (cable runs underneath the house and to the router in another room) - perhaps it was my ethernet port, but the port on my end is fine, the port at the...

I have a Hitachi HSD2000 external hard drive (Hitachi HSD2000 SimpleDrive External Hard Drive - 2TB, USB 2.0 at TigerDirect.com) plugged in by USB. This drive works fine, but has a few strange problems attached to it. a.) When I boot up my computer, the drive is not displayed in the My Computer...

When I play in windowed mode in a few games (awkwardly enough, it is two space-based games with black backgrounds, starfields, etc.) very briefly every now and then I will see a very quick flash of thin, horizontal bars that are all colored differently on my screen. They will continue until...