At best it let’s you get a few gigs of data out, at worst it doesn’t work and you’re back to where you were (which was nothing). Doesn’t really hurt the drive at all.

So, my first goto with an unresponsive external would be to remove the drive from its enclosure. Typically these are retail internal hard drive that are put in an enclosure with a small circuit board that converts SATA to a USB or firewire and sometimes those die.
If you “shuck” the drive and connect it directly to a computer internally via SATA you can bypass that board.

Next step is put the drive in your freezer for an hour or so then pull it out and connect it immediately. Sometimes this frees them up and makes them work for a short while, enough to copy some of the data off.

Drives not being recognized also sometimes happens if they corrupt one sector that’s part of the file system tables and not the actual file system. The drive may be there but not have a file system for windows to read So there’s some other tricks you can try using Linux tools to dump the exact bit for bit contents of the drive, and pass them thru an analyzer that will try to pick out what’s likely of the file structure.

However, still given the drives age, I’ll almost guarantee it’s experienced a full mechanical failure and there might not be anything to recover…

Feel like I’ve seen this one before

Your house is insanely easy to break into unless it’s built with special materials or has steel bars over all openings.

Disregarding the fact that windows break, pretty much every residential door (both interior and exterior) can be busted down by anyone with a decent body weight or with a framing hammer. Hammer thru the door skin, or claw pry on the jamb to force the latch to release, or even just bodyslamming it can be enough to separate the lock block and stiles and the doors will simply fall apart from there.

Can you hear or feel the drive spinning with the power and USB plugged in?

Do you have a second computer (Linux or windows) to also try it in?

A brief search seems to indicate this drive is a minimum of 15 years old, which is an incredible age for a portable mechanical drive. I would honestly be preparing yourself to be dealing with this drove finally being cooked beyond repair. Sure hope you kept backups of what was on it!

You can’t hardly even buy computer monitors without them anymore either. Every one of the higher end Samsung or LG monitors is starting to include “smart” bullshit.

egg irl

Might be 6’3 if he was stretched out on one of those Medieval torture racks.

Pants pulled up high enough to cover the line of the adult diaper tapes.

Not without an elimination of FPTP ya don’t.

you’re in it right now

Numbers like that should have been why you kept going in mech E.

Once you get past the educational stage, every one of those calculations becomes “OK now round to the closest whole number that gives you the larger factor of safety and move on”

PLA basically doesn’t dissolve in any (readily available consumer-grade) solvents. Your best bet is going to be to take the entire unit as far apart as you can until it is metal only components, heat it with a heatgun to make the PLA soft/melt, and brush it all off with a brass cleaning brush.

That’s a whole lot of words to bury the only three that matter, which is

unpermitted disturbances and demonstrations

Capitol protests are now “illegal”.

Sucks to suck I guess, market conditions change, time to get a car not built by a nazi and actively acting as a rolling surveillance system for a nazi?

but what acid would be unable to eat through a water balloon, but still strong enough to eat through automotive paint?

Paint strippers often come in plastic bottles, but destroys the bond between paint and metal.

Also even light acids like vinegar can be enough to etch and damage, but not remove paints - or in the case of the cybertruck, accelerate corrosion on the stainless.

It’s probably made up bullshit to legitimize Moron’s desire to call tesla vandalism “terrorism” and throw people in jail

That’s a really good question, you’d have to ask Google about that one.

You’re welcome!

thanks I never want to hear real life described as “meat space” ever again