External Hard Drive Recovery
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I don't buy Seagates because that happens. Their drive controller circuitry just up and quits. Mine have come back periodically. Randomly. But no recovery tools will work on a drive with a dead controller.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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You could send it to a data recovery outfit, but it won't be cheap. They'll take the drive apart in a clean environment and pull stuff right off the platters, or even simply replace the drive controller. I don't think there's anything *reliable* you can do yourself. I've had two do exactly what yours is doing. The only thing you might be able to do on your own is what I did. Leave it in your machine and pray. One day, when you boot, the little hamster in the thing will come back to life and the drive will enumerate. At that point copy everything you have. PSA: Seagate's commercial stuff is supposedly good. Their consumer gear is a dumpster fire in my experience. Multiple bad drives with your issue.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I see reports like the following pop up every once in a while. I think have seen them show up from different sources but the number of drives covered is always amazing to me. Notice 171,000+ drives. Hard Drive Failure Rates for Q1 2021[^]
honey the codewitch wrote:
Seagate's commercial stuff is supposedly good
I think the following from the above suggests they agree with you. "...that the 18TB Seagate drives...Customer development units are mechanically complete, but the firmware is considered non-production and as such the drives are considered test drives."
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There should have been a backup. "Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
That's good to know. You might tell the OP that. I'm sure he'd like to know.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have a Seagate 5gb drive that my PC's are not longer seeing. I'm hoping it's not lost. Is there any good tools out there for diagnosing & recovering drives?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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That's good to know. You might tell the OP that. I'm sure he'd like to know.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Sorry. OP means Original Poster or Original Post depending on the context. In this case I'm referring to @kevinmorois I hope I spelled your name right, Kevin! :) Edit: Never mind. I see you already did!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Sorry. OP means Original Poster or Original Post depending on the context. In this case I'm referring to @kevinmorois I hope I spelled your name right, Kevin! :) Edit: Never mind. I see you already did!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have a Seagate 5gb drive that my PC's are not longer seeing. I'm hoping it's not lost. Is there any good tools out there for diagnosing & recovering drives?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
React [Go to Parent] When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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I almost guarantee it's a drive controller problem. Seagate drives do this to me too.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Oh snap. Yeah, wouldn't surprise me.
Jeremy Falcon
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
hmmm....I hope I outlive that a**hole across the street so I can dance on his grave. So you are saying I am wasting my time?
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I have a Seagate 5gb drive that my PC's are not longer seeing. I'm hoping it's not lost. Is there any good tools out there for diagnosing & recovering drives?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I have recovered data from a drive which had an obviously blown component on its control board, by replacing such board with one from an identical (near enough) drive sourced from Ebay. Less hassle than transplanting the platters (which I have never done). But if it truly is only 5GB it will be very old and almost certainly unavailable.
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I have recovered data from a drive which had an obviously blown component on its control board, by replacing such board with one from an identical (near enough) drive sourced from Ebay. Less hassle than transplanting the platters (which I have never done). But if it truly is only 5GB it will be very old and almost certainly unavailable.
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mngerhold wrote:
and almost certainly unavailable.
But still could be. I found some 5 GB hard drives and even a 21 MB hard drive with just a quick search.
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Same model is certainly ideal but not necessarily required. There is another poster in this chain that noted they used a similar version. But of course trying to find one that matches close enough without the technical expertise (and no docs) would make it difficult.