External Drive acting strangely

[Kartik Chopra]

Hello everyone,

I have a 1 tb Seagate external drive and today suddenly windows stopped recognizing it.

The LED light does not come on and it does not show up on windows explorer.

The drive does however show up on windows partioning software after 5 mins of loading time but is not initialized and I cannot initialize it (CRC error), and also on HD Sentinel again after 5 mins of loading.

HD Sentinel shows the drive on 100% health with no SMART attributes wrong.

 

The drive was a backup drive and thus can be thrown away easily, but I want to know if I can solve the drive problem

I should also mention the drive is at least 1.5 years old and was used daily, copying about 2-3 GB data to it. (14.8 TB lifetime write and 7.6 TB lifetime read).

 

Any help would be appreciated....

[Metallus97]

SMART and drive health at 100% are interesting with a non functioning drive.

Try to eliminate the layer between the drive and your PC. Open the box, take the drive out and connect it directly via SATA. This did help me solve similar problems