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Mahmudul Hasan
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I have a Seagate Mobile HDD 1TB that stopped working suddenly. I mainly used the hard drive as a portable disk drive via an enclosure. 

 

 

The issue is when I connect it in through the USB port it just rings a tone as proof of connection to the PC. The enclosure lights up with the vibration of spinning the drive as usual disk drives do. But it does not appear on the "This PC" folder as the other disk drives do. However, it shows in the Disk Management as unknown, not initialized, and unallocated drive. I have watched several YouTube videos to fix it but not worked. 

 

I also tried by AOMEI Partition Assistant to Rebuild the MBR, and format the drive but did not work. 

 

I have added several photos of the states and the process of fixes carried out for the disk drive herewith.

 

Is it possible to fix the drive?

 

Any help and recommendations are greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

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20 minutes ago, Mahmudul Hasan said:

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Looks like the drive is failing/failed. Show a screenshot from CrystalDiskInfo.

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1 hour ago, Mahmudul Hasan said:

I have a Seagate Mobile HDD 1TB that stopped working suddenly. I mainly used the hard drive as a portable disk drive via an enclosure. 

 

 

The issue is when I connect it in through the USB port it just rings a tone as proof of connection to the PC. The enclosure lights up with the vibration of spinning the drive as usual disk drives do. But it does not appear on the "This PC" folder as the other disk drives do. However, it shows in the Disk Management as unknown, not initialized, and unallocated drive. I have watched several YouTube videos to fix it but not worked. 

 

I also tried by AOMEI Partition Assistant to Rebuild the MBR, and format the drive but did not work. 

 

I have added several photos of the states and the process of fixes carried out for the disk drive herewith.

 

Is it possible to fix the drive?

 

Any help and recommendations are greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

seagate-stea1000400-expansion-portable-1tb-usb-11551433213.jpg

20231207_010531.jpg

aswdas.jpg

dfdf.jpg

frs.jpg

zdfv.jpg

Most likely there are bad sectors right where important data is to read the partition correctly (like the partition tables). Do you know if it was using mbr or gpt before?

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On 12/7/2023 at 3:44 AM, Ryker Robb said:

Most likely there are bad sectors right where important data is to read the partition correctly (like the partition tables). Do you know if it was using mbr or gpt before?

It was mbr I remember. 

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On 12/7/2023 at 7:17 AM, Ryker Robb said:

Have you tried any data recovery software like disk drill?

Actually didn't try as the drive does not show up in the computer, only appears in the disk management as not initialized disk.

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