this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
52 points (96.4% liked)

Technology

73792 readers
2992 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
52
Weekly tech discussion and tech support thread (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by PopBobert@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hey everybody, feel free to post any tech support or general tech discussion questions you have right here.

As always, be excellent to each other.

Yours truly, moderators.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

In desperation I'd first try (if you haven't already) all the different usb ports in case it's a faulty port. Then a different USB cable, assuming it's not built into the case. If it has some external power supply I'd try a different one if possible.

Beyond that, by "very old" do you mean spinning rust, or are they SSD?

Either way, there's always a way to get into the case, if it's a popular enough drive/case, there may be a video on how to do it. Depending on they type of drive there maybe more you can check on the inside.