Hard Drive Jesus

[TheRock]

Take a look on the following articles:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-a-dead-hard-drive-to-recover-data/
http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Physically-Broken-Hard-Drive

If none of those apply to your condition then check if it is a MBR Failure/format failure.

I'd suggest you use Crystal Disk Info to see more about them, and what's the issue really.
I've came across many cases whereas the external platform had failed, installed the HDD inside the PC Case with SATA Cables would just fix the issue, Or else there might be a problem with partitions..

Always try everything before concluding it's really dead!

[EenBeeFour]

Take a look on the following articles:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-a-dead-hard-drive-to-recover-data/
http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Physically-Broken-Hard-Drive

If none of those apply to your condition then check if it is a MBR Failure/format failure.

I'd suggest you use Crystal Disk Info to see more about them, and what's the issue really.
I've came across many cases whereas the external platform had failed, installed the HDD inside the PC Case with SATA Cables would just fix the issue, Or else there might be a problem with partitions..

Always try everything before concluding it's really dead!

I'll check the articles out now.

The older of the two drives takes longer to access and write data to, I'm assuming because simply it's older and has had more physical damage dealt to it due to constant moving since I have moved homes 4 times and taken it everywhere with me away from the computer, but it still works fine so I'm using it for backups of minor things.

[Huntsman]

See if you can turn USB sticks into hard drives. IF yes, then you are indeed hard drive Jesus.

[SugarD]

See if you can turn USB sticks into hard drives. IF yes, then you are indeed hard drive Jesus.

USB drives can be set to run on computer systems like hard drives. They store data in the same way as far as the computer itself is concerned. It is just a matter of allocating enough space on one to install your operating system and files. (External hard drives can be done the same way on supported systems).

[EenBeeFour]

USB drives can be set to run on computer systems like hard drives. They store data in the same way as far as the computer itself is concerned. It is just a matter of allocating enough space on one to install your operating system and files. (External hard drives can be done the same way on supported systems).

Indeed. I know the past few Windows systems won't allow you to install to external drives, but others like Unix or the new ChromeOS can.

[SugarD]

Indeed. I know the past few Windows systems won't allow you to install to external drives, but others like Unix or the new ChromeOS can.

Windows from 95 Version B and forward support it via USB, however the system itself needs to support booting from USB, else you need a Linux-based OS to bypass that. (I had a similar issue with an old system that didn't support booting via CD, so I had to use MS-DOS to run the CD-based installer on the system).

[Archie]

Did you get this problem solved?

[EenBeeFour]

Well, the hard drives seem fine aside from the oldest being slower and missing 20 GB of space.

[Ben.]

USB drives can be set to run on computer systems like hard drives. They store data in the same way as far as the computer itself is concerned. It is just a matter of allocating enough space on one to install your operating system and files. (External hard drives can be done the same way on supported systems).

Hard drive Jesus! 

[Archie]

Alright.

Locked.