External Seagate hard drive problems

smokestk1

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I have a 3000 gb barracuda 3.5" hard drive I have removed from the enclosure because it would not recognize with the factory card even with a different card tried hooked up to the ide conncection but it would spin. I bought a ide to usb cable and it lights up when hooked up but does not yet spin the drive or recognize in any way. And I need to get this drive back up and running fully; with the adapter to usb cable. Any fixes? I think I might be better off trying to get it to recognize with the factory card because it has a power supply plug in and spins the drive but I haven't found any way to get it to recognize on win 10 64 or 32 bit or win vista business computers. It used to but now it got a virus or something that stopped it from recognizing in the operating system it locks up the whole file explorer and I have to restart the computer.

 
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Good job on backing up your data. You keep referring to the drive as an IDE one, are you sure that this is not a SATA drive, as I don't really know a 3TB PATA (IDE HDDs). There's no more master-slave drives with SATA HDDs. If you are able to get it recognized, you could try writing zeros (low level format), as you already have your data backed up. Unfortunately if it's not recognized at all it might be a problem with the PCB or some sort of physical damage.
Hey there, smokestk1.

What's that card you are referring to? For 3.5" drives the external enclosures should have their own power supply and in some cases you should connect the drive with a Y (double) USB cable to the USB ports as well. Otherwise it won't get enough power to spin-up. When you say that the drive is not recognized, have you checked Device Manager, Disk Management and the BIOS as well? What was the initial issue that led to you taking the drive out of the enclosure.

If you have data to recover, I'd recommend that you try data recovery software, to see if one of the programs recognizes the drive and if you'd be able to recover files from it: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html & http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm. You could also try accessing the HDD via Ubuntu Live USB/DVD, to see if it's recognized and if you can get to your files. And the most reliable option of all - you could go for a data recovery company.

If you don't need to recover files, you should try testing the drive with its manufacturer's diagnostic tool, to see what's the situation with it.

Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
 

smokestk1

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Yes I been looking into all that but it isn't helping. Looks like if all the intial card needs is the ide connection that should be enough power through the usb. But the connector is too wide without a extention cable to get a power supply on the other connector that is probley a small power connect but not used with intial card. Lucky I have the data backed up I just wanted to get the drive back working like it was before something happened. I am putting way too much time into this errored drive when I have the data already backed up to another seagate that is working fine on the same computers. But money has been so hard to get for me the last 14 years every $125 counts. Looks like something as important as an external hard drive would come with a 15 or 20 year free warranty. For some reason this barracuda drive doesn't have a master slave jumper set and jumper on it either pretty strange.







 
Good job on backing up your data. You keep referring to the drive as an IDE one, are you sure that this is not a SATA drive, as I don't really know a 3TB PATA (IDE HDDs). There's no more master-slave drives with SATA HDDs. If you are able to get it recognized, you could try writing zeros (low level format), as you already have your data backed up. Unfortunately if it's not recognized at all it might be a problem with the PCB or some sort of physical damage.
 
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smokestk1

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You were right boogie man I tried the cables set up sata with power supply like that then switched the cables to another drive and it worked pretty well on the other drive. I am just throwing this seagate drive away it is obviously unrecoverable. Thanks for the help it is helping me get some data off another drive.