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External Drives Fried.....
Ok....I'm completely baffled by this one. In the past two weeks 3 of my external drives have gone belly up. First my 500Gb external became inaccessible, prompting me to take it apart and plug it directly into one of my front bays to retrieve my data.(it worked) Then my 2TB fantom greendrive started acting up(for the second time). My media files stared freezing mid-playback and causing my system to lockup. After a cold restart, the files in the folder pretty much all did the same thing. Yet other folders were playable. I transferred everything anyway, just to be safe. Now about an hour ago, my verbatim TB hdd locked up and subsequently disappeared(from "my computer")WHILE I WAS BROWSING IT!! After an hour in the freezer it registered in "my computer" again, but I was unable to retrieve any data before it locked up again.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this? My internal hdds seem unaffected(knock wood)
Power, malware(though I've run about three different online scans and found nothing)
Like I said....I'm totally baffled.
I desperately need help on this one. All my important personal files are on the last drive that went down.
Thanks in advance.