Hello everyone, I bought a Seagate expansion Drive in summer 2014 and recently it's not recognized when plugged in to any computers.
It has failed SeaTools repair attempt and chkdsk will come up with repaired corrupted files some time before, but it's still working after that.
Until recently when I plugged it into an old computer, it's recognized at first but very slow to be usable and not recognized anymore a few minutes later. I suspect that the USB power of the computer is not very stable and caused the problem.
When I plug either to the USB port or the internal SATA port ( I opened it up ), it's not recognized by the computer, it spins up but has some strange clicking sound but it's not very loud. If I plug into the USB port the LED emits but changed to flashing very quickly about 30 seconds later.
Very most of the important data on the drive is backed up to other drives but I would still like to recover the less important files.
The link to the sound: fei0316.dlinkddns.com/files/noise.wav (it's my own server, so it's quite slow, sorry...)
I would like to know what has actually happened inside the drive, and what can I do to make it recognized again, preferably without sending to professional (expansive) data recovery services, as the data on it does not worth it at all.
Thank you very much in advance for any answers!!
It has failed SeaTools repair attempt and chkdsk will come up with repaired corrupted files some time before, but it's still working after that.
Until recently when I plugged it into an old computer, it's recognized at first but very slow to be usable and not recognized anymore a few minutes later. I suspect that the USB power of the computer is not very stable and caused the problem.
When I plug either to the USB port or the internal SATA port ( I opened it up ), it's not recognized by the computer, it spins up but has some strange clicking sound but it's not very loud. If I plug into the USB port the LED emits but changed to flashing very quickly about 30 seconds later.
Very most of the important data on the drive is backed up to other drives but I would still like to recover the less important files.
The link to the sound: fei0316.dlinkddns.com/files/noise.wav (it's my own server, so it's quite slow, sorry...)
I would like to know what has actually happened inside the drive, and what can I do to make it recognized again, preferably without sending to professional (expansive) data recovery services, as the data on it does not worth it at all.
Thank you very much in advance for any answers!!
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