Anyone got, or know anything about, an Omega external hard drive? Tonight lots of my programmes wouldn't open and then I noticed that the little lights on the ex drive weren't on. The switch on the socket where it was plugged in was turned off. This is a multi socket thing and all the others were still on. Could it have turned itself off as a safety factor? It could have happened that somethin fell on the switch and turned it off. I don't know.
I turned it on again and all the data is still on it.
It has two little green lights on the front of it. One is on all the time and the other is off but a bit of light goes thro it now and again. I can't remember if the two were on all the time before the switch turned off. Is there any danger of fire if I use this? Has this happened to anyone before? Is there a safety cut out factor on an external hard drive? I'm a bit nervous using it so can anyone help, please?
2006-11-23 13:06:53 · 5 answers · asked by Rachel Maria 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
There's nothing to worry about. An external hard drive is basically the same as you would expect to find inside the computer - except it's outside the tower.
Once data has been saved on the hard drive its there for good - barring any major crashes. One of the lights indicates that that drive is turned on and the other only flashes on and off when data is being transferred from the hard drive to you computer or vice-versa.
It has obviously been switched off at some stage but that's nothing to worry about. Try accessing information from it, you'll find that it's OK.
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2016-10-17 11:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by mathison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
somebody turned it off ... a manual switch doesnt move itself ... and i doubt its a fire hazzard unless the power transformer is under a rug or somthing where it cant cool properly ... and the one light is power ... the other is an activity light and will only flash when the drive is accessed or theres data transfer ...
2006-11-23 13:16:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call Omega or get on their website. They can help with this. If it is working tho and your data still there, I guess no problem really as long as you back it up. You have a flash drive?
2006-11-23 13:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Marissa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hope it helps
2006-11-23 17:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋