My seagate backup plus is not getting detected. I still see it in device manager though, but not in disk manager. Also, the LED light is switched off, but when I remove the led from the main portion, it starts blinking again if attached to the USB port. I tried using a different cable, no luck there. Tried using it on other usb ports, still won't work (my flashdrive works fine on these ports) Have I lost all my data?
My external hard drive isn't being detected by my computer or disk manager
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From your post I assume you didn't backup the data that's on it? Not very smart.
If you can remove the drive from the enclosure and somehow install it in to a third-party enclosure (I say "somehow" because Seagate now invariably use proprietary connectors on the actual drive) you may find that the drive itself is still okay (the bridge-chip inside the Seagate enclosure is a common failure point).
Failing that, only a very expensive, specialist data recovery service will be able to rescue your data. Even more reason to keep backups, several backups in fact.
If you can remove the drive from the enclosure and somehow install it in to a third-party enclosure (I say "somehow" because Seagate now invariably use proprietary connectors on the actual drive) you may find that the drive itself is still okay (the bridge-chip inside the Seagate enclosure is a common failure point).
Failing that, only a very expensive, specialist data recovery service will be able to rescue your data. Even more reason to keep backups, several backups in fact.
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