Hey Guys
This pot really has nothing to do with gaming but since the board is under the entertainment category and this entertains me, and this is pretty much the onlyy place I hang out on the internet..here goes.

I run an Mvix MX-760 media player to my tv for watching tv shows and movies. I have an external 3.5" HD enclousre which houses a 500gb hd in it. Last night I tried to hook the enclosure up to my computer and organize it up a bit and add a couple new files and found that the drive was making a weird clicky clack noise and the blue light was pulsing. The computer took forever to see the drive and then wouldn't really do anything with it, copy files to or from...uh oh.

A quick google search brought me to 3 threads on 3 different forums. 2 of them said the drive is fail(ing/ed) and to get as much off it as possible before it was too late. The last one said it could be loose connections or an overheating problem in the enclosure. Anyways I ended up taking the enclosure apart unhooking all the connections, hooking it back up but leaving the shell of the enclosure out, so basically the drive is just sitting there naked on my shelf lol. Plugged her back into the computer and it worked properly. Now my dilema..was the problem a connection/enclosure issue and the drive should be fine or is the drive failing and it was a coincidence that it worked properly the 2nd time I plugged it in? I am in the process of moving all the data on it to a MyBook 1TB but I'm kinda cheap and don't really want to buy a new HD, but at the same time I am not sure if the drive can be trusted or not and don't really want to lose any data...any ideas? Any way to see if the drive is buggered? Should I just ditch it?...

Tweak