I have this relatively old (I'm guessing 3-4yrs) Seagate Expansion 500GB drive. I'm guessing this is the model number: ST905004EXA101 based on my search on the internet.
It's just a plain USB 2.0 and 5400rpm external drive and no other special features.
I've never dropped it nor bumped it but after about 1 year use, it went bonkers. What happens is that at first, it suddenly can't be detected by the computer. Eventually it will get detected so I thought it just "happens". After a while it then prompts that it had to be formatted to be used by the computer.
But now, it's practically unusable because the hard drive suddenly "turns off" after being plugged in for about 10-15mins. I say it turns off because in the seldom occasion the drive gets detected, I will format it then during the format process, after a couple of minutes, it will suddenly say "can't continue format because Windows can't access it" then the drive either vanishes from explorer OR it's there but you can't do anything on it but view it's properties. The light stays on the drive however. But most of the time, it won't format at all. Obviously, whatever is in the drive never stays for too long in it.
Seatools can't even detect it and it fails on even the short tests. Chkdsk doesn't finish or feels like it never finishes because it takes forever. There have been rare occasions in the past that I was able to successfully use the drive (e.g. copy files on it) it will stay okay for a couple of days then it will start it's usual cycle again.
Honestly, I really feel it's such a waste for this drive to go since I didn't mishandle it but I decided to try again to see if any of you guys have any thing I can try to fix or "revive" this drive.
It's just a plain USB 2.0 and 5400rpm external drive and no other special features.
I've never dropped it nor bumped it but after about 1 year use, it went bonkers. What happens is that at first, it suddenly can't be detected by the computer. Eventually it will get detected so I thought it just "happens". After a while it then prompts that it had to be formatted to be used by the computer.
But now, it's practically unusable because the hard drive suddenly "turns off" after being plugged in for about 10-15mins. I say it turns off because in the seldom occasion the drive gets detected, I will format it then during the format process, after a couple of minutes, it will suddenly say "can't continue format because Windows can't access it" then the drive either vanishes from explorer OR it's there but you can't do anything on it but view it's properties. The light stays on the drive however. But most of the time, it won't format at all. Obviously, whatever is in the drive never stays for too long in it.
Seatools can't even detect it and it fails on even the short tests. Chkdsk doesn't finish or feels like it never finishes because it takes forever. There have been rare occasions in the past that I was able to successfully use the drive (e.g. copy files on it) it will stay okay for a couple of days then it will start it's usual cycle again.
Honestly, I really feel it's such a waste for this drive to go since I didn't mishandle it but I decided to try again to see if any of you guys have any thing I can try to fix or "revive" this drive.
I've did some long running tests on it both Windows and Seagate and it's all fine. So it really was just the enclosure 
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