Seagate External Drive Initialization Problem

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I have a Seagate SRD00F2 and I just formatted and reinstalled Windows 7. I had Windows 7 installed on my SSD and only deleted and formatted the SSD. When I usually do this, all I need to do is install the USB 3.0 drivers from my motherboard drivers and the external drive is recognized and everything is good to go.

When I currently go into Disk Management, a popup comes up telling me I need to initialize the disk and either choose MBR or GPT. Either one I chose and press OK, it comes up with an error of "Data error (cyclic redundancy check) It is Not Initialized and Unallocated with a black bar.

I tried getting Seagate Manager and that keeps trying to tell me to format the drive. I don't want to format it because I have a lot of important information on it and I just have no idea how a simple windows reformat could have anything to do with this... the reformat was on a totally separate internal solid state drive.

I'm thinking and hoping there could be some sort of setting in windows that I forgot about or something... or at least any way to get some of the files off the drive before formatting it. Any ideas?
 
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Unfortunately, with the stuff you've tried it doesn't sound too hopeful.

But before you give up there is one more possibility -- download GetBackData trial version for NTFS or FAT, whichever the external drive was formatted, and run it on your PC. It takes quite a while but if it gives you a big list of what it can recover, you can then pay their fee and recover those files to a different drive.
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Yeah I tried another 2.0 port, but I have not tried another computer, I will soon.

and it was plugged in, but I've formatted and reinstalled windows a few times with it plugged it and nothing like this has ever happened. Right before I formatted I just transferred some files to it and it was working perfectly fine.

I tried RECUVA, but the problem is it only detects the files on the hard drives the computer detects or has a letter, etc. I can't get it to scan this one...

I got PhotoRec and trying to recover files with that, but it doesn't seem to be working. It's telling me 40,000 hours remaining and it just keeps going up. I really hope I can some how recover at least some files..
 
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Quick update.. after about an hour of PhotoRec not being able to recover even 1 file, I just stopped it and plugged it into another computer... same thing. I think it's dead. Are there any other ways to get the files off this thing or are they gone forever?
 
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Unfortunately, with the stuff you've tried it doesn't sound too hopeful.

But before you give up there is one more possibility -- download GetBackData trial version for NTFS or FAT, whichever the external drive was formatted, and run it on your PC. It takes quite a while but if it gives you a big list of what it can recover, you can then pay their fee and recover those files to a different drive.
 
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