Dying Hard Drive?

I have a WD 250G IDE USB 2.0 external drive. When I connect to computer, I got a message "I/O device error". The drive's icon still shows up but I can not open it. The property of the drive shows it has 0 space.

Interestingly, when I connect the drive to a different laptop with USB 1.0 connection, the drive works well.

Sounds like a pc problem. But some message from internet suggests that my drive is dying. What do you think?

Thanks in advance.

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• 盐兄，把HD拿出来直接接在PC上试试， -π- ♂ (104 bytes) () 02/04/2008 postreply 11:49:14

• 回复：Thanks. Certainly it helps to narrow the problem. -NaCl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/04/2008 postreply 14:48:40

• 回复：Solved. Cable problem. Thanks. -NaCl- ♂ (1 bytes) () 02/04/2008 postreply 16:22:03

• Congratulations! 是什么问题？电缆进了盐水了？哈哈。 -π- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/04/2008 postreply 17:29:54

• 回复：Dying Hard Drive? -mop815- ♂ (430 bytes) () 02/04/2008 postreply 12:39:23

• 回复：回复：Dying Hard Drive? -NaCl- ♂ (218 bytes) () 02/04/2008 postreply 14:47:58

• 回复：回复：回复：Dying Hard Drive? -mop815- ♂ (107 bytes) () 02/07/2008 postreply 08:21:33