Seagate external hard drive not being detected

Seagate 11 · Dec 21, 2014

Hello can anybody help me!I have a Seagate backup plus 1 tb, it's not being detected, it does up in device manager, in disk management it does as disk 1, no media
I have tried changing drive letter no success
Can anybody help?
It's not a new drive

scout_03 · Dec 21, 2014

this drive is in a external case did you try another usb cable or port to see if system will detect and does it have a light on that tell you it receive power also you could use the seagate seatools to see if it will find it .

Seagate 11 · Jan 1, 2015

Hello
I'll be really grateful for your advice
I have a Seagate back up plus 1 Tb external hard drive.

It was working fine then last year in last it wasn't detected. I removed the enclosure that put it in a case. But nothing worked.

A month back, I opened the drive seeing a youtube video and placed the actuator back at its place. Note the drive was spinning.
The drive was being detected but it said G is not accessible.
So I tried to change the permissions by going to properties. It didn't work.
I accessed it on safe mode. There I could access the files but couldn't copy them.
I tried using the drive on another system. Was facing same issue there only difference was that the drive permission changing was taking long and permission of all folder and sub folders were being changed. I had to abort this process as i was too tired.
Next time I plugged in the drive it was really making the explorer crash. I can't open is properties as windows explorer freezes. Also when I try to eject the drive nothing happens. I can't open disk management because it won't load. It has important data 931 GB. Which I can't recover from a recovery program efficiently. Please suggest how to get this drive to work.

Seagate 11 · Jan 1, 2015

In the case I put it, it has two lights in, one yellow for USB one red for drive itself

scout_03 · Jan 1, 2015

you open it up and play with the actuator without been in a seal room then drive it out you wont be able to get anything from it or pay the heavy price for a recovery company if they could get the data .

D_Know_WD · Jan 2, 2015

Hi there Seagate 11,

Most probably, your HDD has some serious physical issue. Furthermore, you have opened in into a dust contaminated room as scout_03 already mentioned.
My guess would be that your only chance of recovering the data would be to use the services of a data recovery company.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

Seagate 11 · Jan 2, 2015

Hi
As I'm a biotechnician, I have access to dust free rooms and I handled the drive with my gloves on and didn't touch where I shouldn't.

scout_03 · Jan 3, 2015

but the actuator is in syncro with the hdd motor and you move it .

Search

Seagate external hard drive not being detected

Seagate 11

Reputable

scout_03

Titan

Seagate 11

Reputable

Seagate 11

Reputable

scout_03

Titan

D_Know_WD

Judicious

Seagate 11

Reputable

scout_03

Titan

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page