USB drive not available when wired to motherboard Sata.

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Dave740

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I have an old Segate powered USB hard drive that is on it's last legs. Transfer speeds are down to ~3 MBps, and frequently just sit at zero for a few seconds intermittently. I removed the hard drive from the factory enclosure and connected it to empty sata power and data ports on my mothboard, but I can't figure out how to access it. Device Manager lists the drive as being connected, and disk management shows the partition, but This PC doesn't list the drive as being there. Over USB, it was drive F. Is there a way to access the data when wired direct to the motherboard without formatting and losing everything? I'm hoping to transfer the contents to my NAS before it dies completely.

Windows 10 64 bit Home
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Phillip Corcoran
If you had kept your data backed up you wouldn't now be in that unenviable position --- I always keep my data backed up (in triplicate on 3 HDDs no less) so that when a drive starts acting weird I can just bin it and replace. Too bad that only now are you worried about your data when it may already be too late.


Looks like you'll have to lose it this time but take it as a lesson learned the hard way. I'm not gloating, I've been there, lost dozens of family pics 10 years ago. It won't happen a second time.
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Tanyac

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In disk management does it show the partition as active and with a drive letter?
Can you right click the partition and select change drive letter and if it doesn't have one, add one? (adding or changing a drive letter is not destructive to the data).
 
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Phillip Corcoran

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If you had kept your data backed up you wouldn't now be in that unenviable position --- I always keep my data backed up (in triplicate on 3 HDDs no less) so that when a drive starts acting weird I can just bin it and replace. Too bad that only now are you worried about your data when it may already be too late.


Looks like you'll have to lose it this time but take it as a lesson learned the hard way. I'm not gloating, I've been there, lost dozens of family pics 10 years ago. It won't happen a second time.
 
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