Hello, My ‘MyBook’ USB disk is dying in an interesting way. For a few days, the disk was continuously disconnecting & re-connecting to the USB port a few times per second. (Lots of Windows sounds throughout the day).
After going online and offline for a couple weeks, the disk is somehow spinning normally again & presenting Windows with a volume. The MBR and the NTFS partition are gone, however (from Windows’ point of view, at least). Any idea why this might happen? It seems a bit like the device decided to report a different physical sector to Windows as the first sector of the disk.
Doesn’t this drive use a proprietary connector/cable? The connector (on the disk side of the cable) looks shallower and thinner than a normal USB male. I doubt that I have a matching spare cable lying around.
Posting the solution for others. Although I was not able to recover the data on this disk, I did have success removing the drive from the stand-alone/USB apparatus and installing it into the computer. It has been running reliably inside the host machine for a month or two now.
