Seagate freeagent go DEAD?

[the_electrician]

I think my portable drive is dead windows recognises it but there is no volume information.
Is there anyway to recover informaition from the drive?



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[ots3go]

Can you see the un-partitioned space in Disk Management?

 

[the_electrician]

it shows 298.09GB its a 320gb usb2 drive.

 

[Surveyor]

298GB is correct (technically 298GiB).

The HDD is measured in Gigabytes (10^9 bytes).

Windows measures in Gibibytes (2^30 bytes).

 

[the_electrician]

298GB is correct (technically 298GiB).

The HDD is measured in Gigabytes (10^9 bytes).

Windows measures in Gibibytes (2^30 bytes).

can it be repaired so i can get the data from it?

 

[Surveyor]

Try disconnecting the drive and re-connecting it again.

Try a different USB port.

Try a different USB cable.

Try clicking populate and see what pops up.

You could try Recuva and see what it can find.

If you use Recuva you need to run the program from, and recover any files to, a different hard drive than the one you're recovering the files from.

 

[the_electrician]

Try disconnecting the drive and re-connecting it again.

Try a different USB port.

Try a different USB cable.

Try clicking populate and see what pops up.

You could try Recuva and see what it can find.

If you use Recuva you need to run the program from, and recover any files to, a different hard drive than the one you're recovering the files from.

None off those worked.
So ive taken it out of its caddy and have unpluged the usb2 adapter pcb and connected a sata cable to it. chkdisc and thats magic.
All the files seem to be there.

 

[Surveyor]

I'm glad you sorted it.

It sounds like a faulty USB connection on the enclosure.

 

[the_electrician]

I'm glad you sorted it.

It sounds like a faulty USB connection on the enclosure.

So am i it had all my wedding photos on that i hadnt backed up.
There is a lesson to be learned here.