I think my drive just shat itself.

[The Electroclassic]

On Saturday I came to work to find my External HDD unreadable by macOS, I use NTFS for Mac for reading it. As you might tell, it's an NTFS formatted disk. It hasn't been damaged, nor dropped. It's a 2TB Seagate Expansion Media. It showed "macOS Couldn't repair this drive" for a brief moment and, when I tried to back it up. It froze the machine for an hour then dropped a message saying "[name of the file] is being used", which stopped the transfer and from then on the drive it's inaccessible. I'll admit I tried to run repair drive on a w7 machine too. The drive doesn't have strange sounds which leads me to believe it's a "software" issue, any ideas on what to do?

[Guest]

Try plugging it into a Windows machine and see if it works, it might be because the of the changes to MacOS Catalina.

[The Electroclassic]

8 hours ago, Darpyface said:

Try plugging it into a Windows machine and see if it works, it might be because the of the changes to MacOS Catalina.

I did that, and it actually showed the drive empty. And windows dropped a message with a “Can’t repait drive”

[kingmustard]

That title

[seagate_surfer]

DId you try any data recovery? I use EaseUS for this and once you get your data back reformat the unit:

https://www.easeus.com/tutorial/drw-mac-free-user-guide.html

 

This software is available for Windows so you can try the recovery from another machine as well...

[The Electroclassic]

13 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

DId you try any data recovery? I use EaseUS for this and once you get your data back reformat the unit:

https://www.easeus.com/tutorial/drw-mac-free-user-guide.html

 

This software is available for Windows so you can try the recovery from another machine as well...

How reliable this software is? Because all my projects and sample packs plus music is in there.