Last night I shut down my big C02 laser after giving it a basic workout yesterday...
... this morning it only half powers up, got power but the firmware won't load; display screen just shows 2 very dim rows of black LCD squares...
And not 1/2 hour later, my 'main' computer starts hanging, and task manager wouldn't shut down my Corel OR my Foxit PDF reader programs.
...A reboot had to force those programs to shut down...
Once the computer rebooted, I noticed nearly all of my mapped network drives had dreaded red X's in front... No access to any of them...
This is bad. All of the network drives point to the same place:
-- my 1tb Sandisk Extreme portable SSD drive. Specifically, every PDF, Excel, Word, Corel and Gravograph job and other files, for all customers, are saved on this drive...
... and now it shows up on the computer exactly as an unloaded Floppy, CD or DVD drive, "No Media" ...
It's listed here in the 'DiskPart' command prompt as Volume 4:
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I have a 2tb drive connected to my router that HAD an automatic backup program built in, used to save all my work files daily, automatically. About the beginning of this year the backup program just quit working, and at that time I just copied all my job files manually to it. They're still there thankfully, but pretty much every job I've saved in the last 10 months has vanished because I haven't backed up since.
This drive is/was less than 2 years old, and wasn't even 1/2 full yet.
Just wondering if anyone's had an SS drive do this? I'm aware that in might simply be a bad cable, lord knows almost every computer cable I've ever had has gone bad. Problem is I can't self diagnose because the cable that connects to the drive, while appearing to be a typical USB type C, isn't- the end that plugs into the drive is typical, goes in either way, but the other end has tiny notches that fit into a Type-A to Type-C adapter that came with it, and the adapter side only fits one way. When I plug it in (to any computer) the computer recognizes it, but only shows up in the "Storage/Disk Management" console, but nowhere else-
(Disk 3 here)
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-But when I plug a 'basic' USB/type C cable from the computer directly into the drive, nothing happens. Needs the cable that came with it...
I'm assuming Geek Squad at Best Buy can check this out for me? In a perfect world the cable will be the problem. Next to a perfect world would be to at least recover my files...
...But I'm not holding my breath...
I currently have orders to build over 100 ski lift operator panels by March, with likely that many more coming... I make these op panels from scratch. Most of the panels ordered I've built before and the are on this disk. Each panel I have to rebuild the machining and engraving files for is about an hour's worth of work. Oy...
I'm going to assume I'm SOL, but I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck having a bad SS drive fixed or files recovered?