CurrentlyPissed
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I have an 8TB (only about 2TB of files) that are very sensitive files, that I need to recover. (kiddos pictures, etc).
This was a Seagate Backup Plus Hub (it uses a desktop Seagate Barracude Compute SMR drive), only about 7 months old. It already failed. I removed the drive from the enclosure to verify it wasn't the enclosure/power device, and it is in-fact the disk drive.
What'll happen is when it's plugged in, after bios screen, very often the PC will not boot, it'll hang in a black screen. If I unplug the drive, the PC boots fine (it's not a windows operating disk, it's just storage).
So if I unplug the drive, get into windows, and then plug in the drive, windows will see the drive, it populates like normal, but either A.) the drive will shut itself down after about 30 seconds~, or b.) the second I try to access any file on it, the drive goes unresponsive.
From what I can tell the partitions are healthy when it boots, or so disk management says so. I just can't get to any of the files. The second I click any file it goes unresponsive.
Is there anyway for me to recoop the sensitive pictures without having to pay alot of $? If I have to, I will, just kinda the sole reason I bought this 'exceptional backup drive'.
Also, it shows up in device manager aswell, but then goes away after about 45 seconds-a minute. If I unplug and plug it back in, it'll work for a few seconds, but happens again.
This was a Seagate Backup Plus Hub (it uses a desktop Seagate Barracude Compute SMR drive), only about 7 months old. It already failed. I removed the drive from the enclosure to verify it wasn't the enclosure/power device, and it is in-fact the disk drive.
What'll happen is when it's plugged in, after bios screen, very often the PC will not boot, it'll hang in a black screen. If I unplug the drive, the PC boots fine (it's not a windows operating disk, it's just storage).
So if I unplug the drive, get into windows, and then plug in the drive, windows will see the drive, it populates like normal, but either A.) the drive will shut itself down after about 30 seconds~, or b.) the second I try to access any file on it, the drive goes unresponsive.
From what I can tell the partitions are healthy when it boots, or so disk management says so. I just can't get to any of the files. The second I click any file it goes unresponsive.
Is there anyway for me to recoop the sensitive pictures without having to pay alot of $? If I have to, I will, just kinda the sole reason I bought this 'exceptional backup drive'.
Also, it shows up in device manager aswell, but then goes away after about 45 seconds-a minute. If I unplug and plug it back in, it'll work for a few seconds, but happens again.