Seagate External HDD Issues

[Whoopsie988]

So, my external HDD started beeping and wasn't recognized by the computer and from what I could tell it was Grade A stuffed to high heaven.

 

I then decided to take it apart and disconnect the USB bridge to see if that was the issue and I could recover my data. Unfortunately the beeping persisted and my motherboard refused to POST. How and why could a buggered mobile HDD cause this and is there any hope whatsoever of me recovering my data?

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

your hdd is probably dead. Got backups?

 

Normally the motherboards wants hdd to respond before it posts, so that is probably why it wouldn't post.

 

You can try turining on sata hostswap and plug the drive in when the system is running.

 

For something like this where there is a sound from the hdd, your best hope of recovery is a data recovery service. 

[Whoopsie988]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

your hdd is probably dead. Got backups?

 

Normally the motherboards wants hdd to respond before it posts, so that is probably why it wouldn't post.

 

You can try turining on sata hostswap and plug the drive in when the system is running.

 

For something like this where there is a sound from the hdd, your best hope of recovery is a data recovery service. 

Okay, thanks. I had pretty much accepted that it was dead so I'm not surprised. I did have a look around in the BIOS for a hot-swapping option but couldn't find anything but I'll have another look. Cheers.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Whoopsie988 said:

Okay, thanks. I had pretty much accepted that it was dead so I'm not surprised. I did have a look around in the BIOS for a hot-swapping option but couldn't find anything but I'll have another look. Cheers.

And if shows up, you probably want to make a image of the drive with software thats made for bad hdds, just copying the files in explorer isn't a greap way.

[seagate_surfer]

This is an option for recovery services in case you are interested:

• https://www.seagate.com/services-software/recover/in-lab-recovery/

[boggen]

if you can get your files back, do not do a "huge" entire drive copy at one time,  do it little bit of copying at a time. try a couple megs, if it is slow keep it there, then try a 20 to 30 megs, then up to 100 megs, etc... eventally your going to hit issues were hdd is bad and cause all havic to happen getting around the bad part of drive.

 

keep the drive cool, no need to cause it to overheat and then lose all files completely, 

 

no cut/paste (moving),  but keep track via "copy" 

[seagate_surfer]

I've tried it before and it's time-consuming, it's not bad, it's just that you need to have time available, if one of those files is damaged, the whole transfer will fail, that means you'll have to start over with fewer files and so on until can identify which file is damaged and thus causing problems... If you could find a tool that does it for you, do it! Or pay a data recovery lab...