Quote Originally Posted by Appzalien View Post
The high failure rate of external hard drives nearly always leads to poor ventilation of the external enclosure. If you want to try and save some data, try removing the drive from the enclosure, put it in a ziplock bag and place it in the freezer for 24 hours. Let it come back close to room temperature, mount it inside the PC if you can (not back into the enclosure) and transfer as much data as you can to another drive before it fails again.

You might want to purchase a new drive for this purpose and temporarily mount it in one of your rom drives position so you can run three drives at a time if you don't have the sata option.
I never would've thought that someone would use this seriously..