Seagate 2-T/B External Hard Drive

[TheJudge]

Originally Posted by zzyeahok

Just remember, all drives eventually fail.

Of course but most of all and an advice for the TS: Seagate's/Samsung/Maxthon drives have a tendency to die rather much earlier than f.e. a WD or HGST. Get rid of your other Seagate drives. I personally have had Seagate drives fail after 6 months.

If you want drives that can run 24/7 without a problem buy a WD Red. They're originally designed for NAS systems.

I personally have a notebook equipped with a HGST 1TB drive 7200RPM and it has run about 6144 hours since the beginning of the year. Well that makes an average of some 16 hours/day. How about that for a notebook drive that isn't even designed for 24/7.

[sn8k33y3s]

Seagate diagnostic tools here:

http://seagate.com/gb/en/support...oads/seatools/

Try mounting it on a linux OS. (Seems unlikely, but worked for me once).

Last resort:
Seal the drive in an air tight bag, then stick it in the freezer for no more than 1/2 an hour. This may give you a window in which you can rescue some data. (Again, it seems unlikely, but has worked for me once or twice).

If you can get windows or linux to recognize the drive, then use a data recovery tool to copy over whatever you can to a new drive. None of the above are a permanent fix, but may help you to save some data.

Good luck.

EDIT: I used to use r-studio for data recovery. It's a professional tool, so fairly fully featured. http://r-studio.com/

[sn8k33y3s]

Originally Posted by TheJudge

Of course but most of all and an advice for the TS: Seagate's/Samsung/Maxthon drives have a tendency to die rather much earlier than f.e. a WD or HGST. Get rid of your other Seagate drives. I personally have had Seagate drives fail after 6 months.

If you want drives that can run 24/7 without a problem buy a WD Red. They're originally designed for NAS systems.

The only real way to ensure your data is safe is to have a striped and mirrored array, at which point it doesn't really matter what drives you're running. Since we're not discussing bitcoin wallets, classified or personal data it is less of an issue. I have had many drives of all types fail at varying levels of use and over varying timescales regardless of make or model.

[zzyeahok]

sn8k33y3s,

Originally Posted by sn8k33y3s

I have had many drives of all types fail at varying levels of use and over varying timescales regardless of make or model.

Boy, have to agree with that. I've even had really good luck with Seagates. Haven't had any more problems with them than any other brand. But thats just my luck. I know others have had different experiences.

But the main point still is to back up, back up and back up again if you value your data. Just can't be sorry as that definitely works and saves people a lot of headaches.

[whitey218]

Originally Posted by sn8k33y3s

Seagate diagnostic tools here:

http://seagate.com/gb/en/support...oads/seatools/

Try mounting it on a linux OS. (Seems unlikely, but worked for me once).

Last resort:
Seal the drive in an air tight bag, then stick it in the freezer for no more than 1/2 an hour. This may give you a window in which you can rescue some data. (Again, it seems unlikely, but has worked for me once or twice).

If you can get windows or linux to recognize the drive, then use a data recovery tool to copy over whatever you can to a new drive. None of the above are a permanent fix, but may help you to save some data.

Good luck.

EDIT: I used to use r-studio for data recovery. It's a professional tool, so fairly fully featured. http://r-studio.com/

Tried the freezer thing. Did not work. Starting the Seagate Diagnostic tool thing, next. W/try other suggestions within this group of suggestions. Thanks to ALL!

[Qwerty987]

If you are thinking about buying a new HD, this may help
backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015

[whitey218]

OK, I have successfully gotten the HD out of the Seagate 2 tb External Hard Drive, case. I'm going to attempt the file recovery on my own.

Which 1 of the two listed here is the best for trying to recover files from the Seagate/Barracuda 2000GB HD?

[OddBa11]

Have you already attached and tested the drive? Often, simply removing the drive from the enclosure (most common failure) is all that is needed to restore proper operation.

Otherwise, the drive must be properly recognized by the system for any recovery software to work.

As for the software itself, I have used EaseUS Data Recovery in the past, but they are all similar. And most will run in trial mode, so that you can see if files are found before you buy and attempt recovery. HDD brand/model is irrelevant.

[rbn]

Your laptop should have room for a second HDD inside. Just connect it into the secondary SATA slot. If it can read it, it will assign/everything else, automatically.

[HiTrack99]

True story about a Seagate: took it out of it's massive enclosure, put it in an Icy-Box, and turned it over - it worked. So I copied everything onto a new drive and trashed the old one as it was still making a clicking noise the right way round.