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<blockquote data-quote="bayankaran" data-source="post: 1804451" data-attributes="member: 400950">What makes you so sure it's not dead? It isn't showing up, which means either it's not powering up, or it's not connecting. I know it's hard to believe it just died, but there you are.There's no 100%, but a drive which was showing up as healthy should not really go completely dead in a few hours unless I did something drastic. The issue with the drive was probably free space. The person using it was complaining &quot;computer is now slow&quot;. I asked what she did recently and got the reply &quot;I had to copy a lot of video files, I need to find a drive to copy to&quot;. I don't know how Mac works, but maybe swap space got full, disk got full and so on and refused to boot in a normal mode. And before I installed the OS on the memory stick I could find a terminal and poke around. So my instinct is that the drive is fine, but its hiding somewhere. That said it could be dead as well.I hope its not soldiered on to the motherboard. If its not dead I can take it out, and fix it in an enclosure and save data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bayankaran, post: 1804451, member: 400950"] [I]What makes you so sure it's not dead? It isn't showing up, which means either it's not powering up, or it's not connecting. I know it's hard to believe it just died, but there you are.[/I] There's no 100%, but a drive which was showing up as healthy should not really go completely dead in a few hours unless I did something drastic. The issue with the drive was probably free space. The person using it was complaining "computer is now slow". I asked what she did recently and got the reply "I had to copy a lot of video files, I need to find a drive to copy to". I don't know how Mac works, but maybe swap space got full, disk got full and so on and refused to boot in a normal mode. And before I installed the OS on the memory stick I could find a terminal and poke around. So my instinct is that the drive is fine, but its hiding somewhere. That said it could be dead as well. I hope its not soldiered on to the motherboard. If its not dead I can take it out, and fix it in an enclosure and save data. [/QUOTE]

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