The product: 320GB Lacie Enet Disk Mini Gigabit USB 2.0 A month or so ago the drive would crash and I'd have to restart it to get it to connect. I didn't realize until too late that it was just failing on me. So now when I start it up it just hangs. The power comes on, but it doesn't connect and its not spinning the drive or anything. I can't even turn it off without unplugging it. I bought a new enclosure from a different company to see if it was the enclosure that failed or the HDD that failed. The HDD (some 320GB SATA2 drive from Seagate) in the new enclosure spins up and connects to my system by USB. This makes me think it was the enclosure's hardware that failed. Now here's the problem that I can't seem to get an answer on. When plugged in to the new enclosure, the drive shows up in the Disk Manager and I can see partitions on it that look like the ones I created on it. This to me indicates the drive is fine and my data is there. However, my computer can't read the data I suspect because of whatever file system that LaCie uses isn't standard. Anyone know of a method to read this data outside of the enclosure? I did not go to LaCie for support mainly because their policy is to just wipe the data. The data is more important to me than having a working NAS.
I'm reading that it is HFS+ http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/16/lacie-250gb-nas-usb-ethernet-disk-mini-reviewed/#comments not sure if that helps or just causes more confusion XD
Thanks for the info on HFS! That lead me to try out this recently created Ubuntu Live CD I created. I was able to access the files in that OS. I still have issues as far as working to transfer everything to a drive that Windows can read but it's a big step in the right direction and I was immediately able to recovered some sensitive files.
