I am unable to access my hard drive in Windows 7, 10, or Ubuntu

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Will_Dutcher

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I realize this is a fairly common problem, but I am unable to fix this with the plethora of information I've searched in StackOverflow and other sites.

For whatever reason, my NTFS Seagate 1TB HDD decided to disallow me access. I can see the drive, but I am UNABLE to get into it. I initially thought it was my SSD that was the issue, going so far as to get a new hard drive and a fresh copy of Windows 10. I upgraded everything, plugged my drives in one-by-one and discovered that the 1TB was the issue. This one did NOT have an OS on it, and was really what I'd used for Steam. Long story short, I can't access it.

I've tried the tricks in Windows (disabling Quick Start, turning off Hibernation) and the "sudo ntfsfix /dev/" and am getting nowhere. Does anyone have any idea what else I may be able to try to access this information, or is it lost?

Thank you for any help you may provide, all!

Will
 
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doesnt sound good i am afraid

in the past i have managed to get some ones data back by getting an identical pcb and putting that on the drive

though finding a totally identical one isnt easy and unless its important stuff probably not worth the bother
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In Windows, it just simply will not load. I see it populate in my list of available hard drives, but when I click it, Windows just locks up. When I try in Ubuntu, it tells me it can't mount.
 
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Will_Dutcher

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I'm trying that now.

***Back now; it's coming up as a Failure at 77%. I guess the drive is just bad, which is obviously what I suspected. Any other tools anyone can think of to help me get back the data on the hard drive?

***One more update, and this can't be good. Checked Disk Manager just to see what it'd say, and it's coming up as
Drive: N
Layout Simple
Type: Basic
File System: Raw
Status: Healthy (Primary Partition)
Capacity: 931.51 GB
Free Space: 931.51 GB
% Free: 100%
Fault Tolerance: No

This means the drive is essentially wiped, doesn't it?
 
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doesnt sound good i am afraid

in the past i have managed to get some ones data back by getting an identical pcb and putting that on the drive

though finding a totally identical one isnt easy and unless its important stuff probably not worth the bother
 
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Will_Dutcher

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It was all my Steam game saves and all the music I'd been collecting since being an adult. Luckily, my iPod was backed up and I found some software to reverse sync it so I didn't lose much of anything. And now I have a 2TB for backups. Sucks for my games, but coulda been worse. Thank you very much for your help, though!

Will
 
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