old sata hard drive from pc removed and encased in external case not detectin and initializing in another laptop

shubham797 · Mar 28, 2017

i removed my sata hard drive from my old pc (seagate hard drive )
i put it in a 3.5 inch case and installed it in the case
i powered it on and connected it to my laptop but
it does not show in my computer
i went to disk management
and it showed disk 1
unknown
not initialized
and i couldn't even initialize it
help me use this hard drive

Paperdoc · Mar 28, 2017

I am guessing that you are using a USB cable to connect to the external case. Although a USB port can supply a bit of power to some accessories, it can NOT supply enough to power a HDD. Your external enclosure should have come with its own "power brick" that you plug into the wall and into the enclosure. Make sure that is connected so your HDD will get enough power to work.

shubham797 · Mar 30, 2017

Paperdoc :

bro i have an external case which comes with a power supply so tell me something else

Paperdoc · Mar 30, 2017

OK, so it's not a power issue. There is the possibility the drive has failed, but that's hard to test on a laptop using an external enclosure. Can you get a friend with a desktop machine to help? You could mount it temporarily in that machine and then download and use Seagate's Seatools for Windows to run diagnostics on that old drive.

shubham797 · Mar 30, 2017

Paperdoc :

shubham797 · Mar 30, 2017

no i don't have a PC that is the main reason i bought the external case cant i do something with my laptop anything

Paperdoc · Mar 30, 2017

Well, you could try downloading and installing the Seatools for Windows utility from Seagate, then run it from your laptop with the old HDD installed in the external case. I do not know whether Seatools can diagnose a HDD that way, but maybe.

As a related issue, does your external enclosure use only a USB connection to your laptop? Or, does it also have an option to use an eSATA connection? If it does, and IF your laptop also has an eSATA port, you would have better luck using that connection system. This might be especially important for the Seatools use, because basically an eSATA connection is almost the same as an internal SATA connection with no "translation" through some interface.

shubham797 · Mar 30, 2017

Paperdoc :

Well, you could try downloading and installing the Seatools for Windows utility from Seagate, then run it from your laptop with the old HDD installed in the external case. I do not know whether Seatools can diagnose a HDD that way, but maybe.

As a related issue, does your external enclosure use only a USB connection to your laptop? Or, does it also have an option to use an eSATA connection? If it does, and IF your laptop also has an eSATA port, you would have better luck using that connection system. This might be especially important for the Seatools use, because basically an eSATA connection is almost the same as an internal SATA connection with no "translation" through some interface.

shubham797 · Mar 30, 2017

thank you for replying so fast
no it just have an USB 2.0 connection nothing of Esata mentioned
but why i am not able to initialize it
you can try use my pc from team viewer app just mail me if you wanna help and find out yourself
shubhamy97@yahoo.com

Paperdoc · Mar 30, 2017

What is displayed in Disk Management says that Windows can detect that something is there, but it is not responding properly to any communication signals sent to it. That is why I suspect the drive is faulty. That also is why I am not sure that Seatools will be able to get anything useful from it while it is in the enclosure, if it cannot communicate with the laptop. But it might work. And Seatools for Windows is free from the Seagate site, so it won't cost you anything to try that.

shubham797 · Mar 30, 2017

it is not detecting on seatools

Paperdoc · Mar 31, 2017

That MAY mean the HDD is dead, or it MAY mean that it has enough trouble communicating that the interface between USB and SATA in the enclosure cannot get any useful information to pass back. If you want to pursue it further, try to find some place where you can install it temporarily in a desktop machine and then use Seatools from there. If Seatools still cannot get any information from it that way, the disk is dead.

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