- Sep 23, 2013
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Hi, so I've had this Seagate Expansion 1TB HDD for about 2 years now and I think its coming to the end of its life now. The problem is that the drive has thrown up problems before I could finish transferring data off it onto a new hard drive.
I was transferring some TV Shows when suddenly it stopped, the hard drive started beeping and the whole thing just shut down. Now, when I connect it to the computer it appears on "My Computer" but there is no capacity bar or any such information about it.
I know that there is no reader head problem or wire problem as I tried it with a different wire and it still shows the same problem; and I tried to use Recuva to see if I could recover the files that way but obviously Recuva only recovers files that have been deleted, not files that aren't accessible. This way I know that the reader head isn't broken as Recuva is still able to find recently deleted files. Here is the screenshot of the My Computer Screen:
http://s13.postimg.org/badb9vzh3/Picture1.png
For Reference:
Hard Drive: Seagate Expansion Portable Drive
Model: SRD00F1
OS: Windows 8 (I know, I know, but it came with the laptop)
I really appreciate any help you can give me, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this so I can get my documents back!
I was transferring some TV Shows when suddenly it stopped, the hard drive started beeping and the whole thing just shut down. Now, when I connect it to the computer it appears on "My Computer" but there is no capacity bar or any such information about it.
I know that there is no reader head problem or wire problem as I tried it with a different wire and it still shows the same problem; and I tried to use Recuva to see if I could recover the files that way but obviously Recuva only recovers files that have been deleted, not files that aren't accessible. This way I know that the reader head isn't broken as Recuva is still able to find recently deleted files. Here is the screenshot of the My Computer Screen:
http://s13.postimg.org/badb9vzh3/Picture1.png
For Reference:
Hard Drive: Seagate Expansion Portable Drive
Model: SRD00F1
OS: Windows 8 (I know, I know, but it came with the laptop)
I really appreciate any help you can give me, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this so I can get my documents back!
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