now for my serious response, I gave the screen a really good clean which was better than the usual quick just get rid of the finger marks clean and it has allowed the screen to become a little more responsive, but even with this improvement it is still not good so I'm going to hook up a mouse to it and see how that goes.It may or may not help but a dirty screen can make a difference. Try a good cleaning and see if it helps. If not, at least you will have a clean screen
No chance of that happening mate, as the kid's might go off their tree if I try to sell their best frisbees.That is pretty smooth igg. The feeling is mutual, unless you start sending us emails trying to sell those ZT180's of yours.
Hey Spider,dont know that this is the right forum to ask a question about an eternal hard drive issue or you may want to shift me to another link to get the query addressed ?, but it is in regard to a WD external mains powered hard drive that belongs to my daughter and she uses it to store family videos,pictures and music with the music being entirely devoted to Bon Jovi (you cant control your kids music likes or dislikes) she stores the data on this hard drive and plays it back through a media player hooked up to a flat screen tv,the problem is that following her last storing of data on this hard drive and hooking it up to the media player the the media player would not recognise the hard drive, she then rehooked it up to a computer (running windows)and the computer fails to recognise the hard drive.That is pretty smooth igg. The feeling is mutual, unless you start sending us emails trying to sell those ZT180's of yours.
The problem has been fixed, I have a mate that operates a computer workshop so I took the faulty?hard drive to him and he had one of his technicians prise open the case and he was then able to hook up the hard drive internal gear to a bit of equipment he has and lo and behold the data was able to be saved, he then cloned the data to a 2nd hand hard drive he had and the problem was solved. He told me that in a lot of cases where the computer fails to recognise the external hard drive is due to a problem in the hard drive switch board /switch gear and that the best way is to attack the probem in the way he has fixed my hard drive however if it is due to driver being corrupted you may need to look at the method you suggested of going to into some data recovery software.which can be somewhat expensive,or the data recovery service method you mentioned and as you have said that can be super expensive, he also said that if you were to return it to the manufacturer which in this case was WD all they want to do is just send you a replacement hard drive (providing your still under warranty) either way the best you can hope for is a replacement hard drive and the loss of all data.igg, after going through the process of trouble shooting (may the drivers got corrupted or something like that) you might want to look into some data recovery software (probably not cheap). If you can't find any that works for you or that you want to pay for you might need to take it into a data recovery service (definitely not cheap). Unfortunately this is what happens what hard drives fail and there is no back up
Sorry Spider,I had taken the drive to my mates workshop before I read your suggestion,so I didn't get the opportunity to test your method, but your right in one thing, that it is importnt to action the safely remove hardware feature, blooy external hard drives have created me a whole bunch of problems with one being that I drpopped a 2tb mains connected drive to whih I had ripped in excess of 40 blue ray movies (which all belonged to me,and I watch them by hooking them up to a media player connected to a 50" plasma TV,) and on another occassion I had a whole heap of technical stuff stored on another 2tb drive which my mate that runs the computer work shop wanted to clone for his own use and you wouldn't want to know it but somehow or other he lost the total amount of data, any way you havent got freinds to go crook at simply because they made a mistake,but the problem sorted itself out with him and me working back in his workshop and reloading all the data which luckily was still fresh in my mind,and what's a few hours work amongst mates?
Also, I'm glad to hear you were able to recover your daughter's songs for her even though you don't care for her taste in music. Hopefully, she'll remember that on Father's day.