- Jan 22, 2017
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Hey there,
So I'm in quite a predicament. While I was on a trip, I accidentally left the USB 3.0 cable plugged in to my Seagate 4TB Fast Portable HDD (STDA4000100), and sure enough the worst case scenario happened and the connector got sheared off the interface PCB. Normally this'd be a simple data recovery, but the problem is the Fast model uses 2 2TB HDDs in RAID 0, from what I understand. Could anyone give me some clues/tips on how I would go about recovering the data from these two drives, short of calling up Seagate and begging for a new interface board? A lot of my important research data is unfortunately on these HDDs, and the drives themselves should be fine, its just getting them to talk properly with my computer that I'm running into issues with. I tried using a simple SATA to USB hard drive stand connector, but it says that I need to format the drive to use it (Which...no) so I take it I'm going to have to insert both drives into my computer internally, then use some software to get them to play nice with one another. I'm just not sure how to go about doing that, since I've never had to deal with 2 drives at once before.
So I'm in quite a predicament. While I was on a trip, I accidentally left the USB 3.0 cable plugged in to my Seagate 4TB Fast Portable HDD (STDA4000100), and sure enough the worst case scenario happened and the connector got sheared off the interface PCB. Normally this'd be a simple data recovery, but the problem is the Fast model uses 2 2TB HDDs in RAID 0, from what I understand. Could anyone give me some clues/tips on how I would go about recovering the data from these two drives, short of calling up Seagate and begging for a new interface board? A lot of my important research data is unfortunately on these HDDs, and the drives themselves should be fine, its just getting them to talk properly with my computer that I'm running into issues with. I tried using a simple SATA to USB hard drive stand connector, but it says that I need to format the drive to use it (Which...no) so I take it I'm going to have to insert both drives into my computer internally, then use some software to get them to play nice with one another. I'm just not sure how to go about doing that, since I've never had to deal with 2 drives at once before.
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