Need help with recovering data from 1.5G seaseagate external drive whirring or buzzing

mesu41 · Jul 13, 2016

Need help with recovering data from 1.5G seagate external drive whirring or buzzing for a few min while not recognized by Mac or PC. Then noise stops Mac OS x10.11 states cannot be read..ignore, initialize or eject. And disk utility shows the total size of drive is only 4G. On PC the noise stops then a message comes up like Windows 10 is trying to read the drive to make it appear in computer. However a similar message as the Mac stating it needs to be formatted which is not a choice but it then shows up in device management as unallocated (cannot right click to do anything but look at properties) and so have no clue what to do to get data recovered asap
and what is changing size of drive to something inaccurate? Corrupt data?

Ironsounds · Jul 13, 2016

Hello... Is the drive HOT to touch too? B /

1) Can you post the tech/spec sheet for your drive model? for proper configuration.
2) Is this a External USB2/3 drive/enclosure?
3) have you DL'd "Sea Tools" from Seagate and tried to FIX or analyze the drive?
https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+tools&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=

Shaun o · Jul 13, 2016

Right if the drive has an external enclosure.

And the drive inside of it is a 3.5" desktop drive.

The reason why the drive spins up, but the drive does not register as connect to the system with windows on it.
And the external drive uses a usb connection for data.

Plus it`s own power brick connected to the external drive enclosure.

Is because in most cases the bridge board inside the external drive enclosure, that converts a standard desktop Sata drive of 3.5" to a Usb data cable connection has failed Mesu41.

To get the Data off the drive or to be able to read the contents of the drive, remove it from the external drive enclosure.

Once open if the drive is of the 3.5" form factor size you will see the bridge board.
And by removing it you will be left with a standard Sata data cable, and power cable connection of the drive.

Simply connect the drive to your system via a Sata data cable and to a sata port of the motherboard, and then connect power to the drive also.

I have seen this plenty of times where the bridge board used in an external drive enclosure fails.

If you follow the instructions above the drive once connected via it`s native Sata connection of the physical drive with power added to it will work and let you copy the contents of that drive to another drive.

Or just leave it in the system you connected it to for the time being.
And buy another external drive enclosure for a 3.5" sized drive.

The bridge boards always seem to fail first other than the physical drive it`s self F.Y.I mesu41 ok.

2.5" inch drives in an external enclosure are a bit more of a pain.
Because they use a control board on the drive its self that connects via a soldered on Usb port.

If it fails and you cannot read any information off the drive then it can be hard to fix or repair.

mesu41 · Jul 14, 2016

Shaun

It is not enclosed externally anymore. That was the first thing I did was to remove it from the enclosure. This is a sata to usb cable that I tried to connect directly to a imAc & window 7 laptop.
No drive is not hot.
No, i have not downloaded Seagate tools but I will do so now.

Shaun o :

Right if the drive has an external enclosure.

And the drive inside of it is a 3.5" desktop drive.

The reason why the drive spins up, but the drive does not register as connect to the system with windows on it.
And the external drive uses a usb connection for data.

Plus it`s own power brick connected to the external drive enclosure.

Is because in most cases the bridge board inside the external drive enclosure, that converts a standard desktop Sata drive of 3.5" to a Usb data cable connection has failed Mesu41.

To get the Data off the drive or to be able to read the contents of the drive, remove it from the external drive enclosure.

Once open if the drive is of the 3.5" form factor size you will see the bridge board.
And by removing it you will be left with a standard Sata data cable, and power cable connection of the drive.

Simply connect the drive to your system via a Sata data cable and to a sata port of the motherboard, and then connect power to the drive also.

I have seen this plenty of times where the bridge board used in an external drive enclosure fails.

If you follow the instructions above the drive once connected via it`s native Sata connection of the physical drive with power added to it will work and let you copy the contents of that drive to another drive.

Or just leave it in the system you connected it to for the time being.
And buy another external drive enclosure for a 3.5" sized drive.

The bridge boards always seem to fail first other than the physical drive it`s self F.Y.I mesu41 ok.

2.5" inch drives in an external enclosure are a bit more of a pain.
Because they use a control board on the drive its self that connects via a soldered on Usb port.

If it fails and you cannot read any information off the drive then it can be hard to fix or repair.

mesu41 · Jul 16, 2016

I still need help on this one please?

S Haran · Jul 16, 2016

What is the model name of the drive? What did Seatools say? Or connect the drive directly to a SATA port and check the SMART status of the drive with CrystalDiskInfo. Does it also report the wrong size?

mesu41 · Jul 16, 2016

Barracuda
Seagate tools long test FAILED
Is it hopeless to get data recovered???

S Haran :

S Haran · Jul 16, 2016

What is the exact full model name? Did Seatools also report the wrong size?

It is far from hopeless but you will likely need some level of Pro help.

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