Access Denied After Doing a Checkdisk On Seagate Ext HDD

Aug 10, 2018
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So people of the internet, i have 1 TB Seagate External Hard Drive, And when i'm connect it to my laptop and i tried to open it, it says something like, "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable", so i look up on this page, and it says that i need to do a chkdsk to my corrupted ext HDD. after i do it, i can't access my HDD because it says "Access Denied". i already do the take ownership thing, and i still cant access the hard drive. By the time i post this, im still looking for a way to fix it, and formatting the disk is no go because i have 700+gb of work file that cant be lost, i hope you guys can help me fix it. Thanks a lot people!!

Here is link to my chkdsk result and Device manager

https://imgur.com/a/wEM3abo
 
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Sounds like it's too late to recover any data from it - - that's why most of us keep our data backed up mate. I have 3 separate backups of mine on 3 external WD HDDs - - you can never have too many backups, way better than having none at all.

Seagate -- don't get me started on them. I had 3 of them (externals) all fail within a few months. Will never buy a Seagate again. Currently using 3 x WD ones and they are all still healthy after 6 years daily use.

I think your only hope for that data is to send the drive to a data recovery service if you have a healthy bank account (you'll need it).

mdsimmons1118

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Ugh. More problems with these Seagate External Hard Drives. I know of two that already broke within the first week. Since it was already a goner I decided to open it up and see why it wasn't working. Turns out the read/write arm was bent downwards on both drives making it stuck and scraping the platter when it started spinning. These drives are just too cheap so I will try the WD ones to see if they are better. I'm not exactly sure what is wrong with yours though.
 
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i have this hdd since 5 or 6 years ago, and it never occured a problem to me. maybe after i managed to get all my data back im gonna try on WD harddisk and give it a go
 
Sounds like it's too late to recover any data from it - - that's why most of us keep our data backed up mate. I have 3 separate backups of mine on 3 external WD HDDs - - you can never have too many backups, way better than having none at all.

Seagate -- don't get me started on them. I had 3 of them (externals) all fail within a few months. Will never buy a Seagate again. Currently using 3 x WD ones and they are all still healthy after 6 years daily use.

I think your only hope for that data is to send the drive to a data recovery service if you have a healthy bank account (you'll need it).
 
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