Hello,
I have a seagate 8TB expansion desktop drive that failed yesterday. Couple days ago, a particular folder inside the drive was running slow/apps were not able to access it, and when I tried to remove it the HDD failed. It was giving me Code 43 (Set address failed) after trying everything I could find on internet, nothing helped (I tried on multiple PCs, all the same problem). So I decided that maybe the enclosure is the problem, So I opened it and installed it as internal one. If I installed the HDD before booting, the HDD wouldn't initialize, but if I plug it in while system is running, it would show the drive with correct usage stats and folders inside. However, when I try to go to any of the folders inside, the OS either hangs or it shows that folder is empty (even though properties of the drive shows 47% of drive is used). if I try any diagnostic tool, the tool would hang even trying to access it.
Last thing I noticed is that task manager shows the HDD at 100% usage even though nothing is accessing it. I'm not sure what to do and any help is greatly appreciated (there are files there that I need to recover).
I have a seagate 8TB expansion desktop drive that failed yesterday. Couple days ago, a particular folder inside the drive was running slow/apps were not able to access it, and when I tried to remove it the HDD failed. It was giving me Code 43 (Set address failed) after trying everything I could find on internet, nothing helped (I tried on multiple PCs, all the same problem). So I decided that maybe the enclosure is the problem, So I opened it and installed it as internal one. If I installed the HDD before booting, the HDD wouldn't initialize, but if I plug it in while system is running, it would show the drive with correct usage stats and folders inside. However, when I try to go to any of the folders inside, the OS either hangs or it shows that folder is empty (even though properties of the drive shows 47% of drive is used). if I try any diagnostic tool, the tool would hang even trying to access it.
Last thing I noticed is that task manager shows the HDD at 100% usage even though nothing is accessing it. I'm not sure what to do and any help is greatly appreciated (there are files there that I need to recover).
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