Seagate External HDD, will not read or show in Windows 10 Pro

adam.loveless1205

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The drive is owned by my boss, I have asked twice how he messed this drive up with no answer. What I have done so far is, I have tested the disk with testdisk, I have taken the drive apart and checked the controller by plunging another drive into it, I have tried CHKDSK but the drive wont initialize so no drive letter or path for it to see. I can hear the drive trying to run but that is it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this drive contains a lot of valuable information. I would also like to note that I have looked through a large number of threads and cannot seem to find anything that helps. Thanks!
 
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Than only option is get it to service that specializes in data retrieval. Usually very expensive. They mostly have to take platters out and put them in special machine and retrieval takes long time.

adam.loveless1205

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Well, I was worried it might come to something like that. Thank you for your insight!