and i'm just complete out of options so pls what do i do without data loss or spending about 900 for a recovery. i dismantled the case and used an external sata to usb but this makes the drive to be powered on again and it appears to have GPT and a partition of 16TB and the drive name changes to the external sata name so this is very odd. And all the external hard drives featured on this page have USB 3.0 though they are backwards compatible with all USB 2.0 devices. the reading head also works as normal and the drive also goes into sleep after a while. Transferring files onto a drive can be a time consuming process but with a USB 3.0 connection the time spent waiting for the transfer to complete can be radically cut. the drive doesn't make any weird noises it sound all very normal an quite like a drive should be.
after doing a surface test it seems my first sectors are bad but all the others are fine. Seagate Backup Plus Portable hard drive offers 5TB The perfect complimentary laptop hard drive featuring a minimalist metal enclosure Simply plug this external hard drive for Mac and Windows into a computer via the included USB 3.0 cable to back up files with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. essentialy the drive is a brick with some data. i was thinking to chkdsk or fixmbr but i can't assign a drive letter nor the GUID is given. I'm very careful about housekeeping on the. I manually backup periodically and then disconnect the Seagate drive.
then when i plug the usb into another computer it doesn't even power on anymore. I use Seagate Dashboard 4.7.1.1 that came with the drive. when i try to initialized the drive it tells me access denied even as admin and using the build in admin account also does nothing. it doesn't show in diskpart when i do list disk but when i select disk 2 he selects the disk but it has no volume or partition. and it tells me the F: drive can't be found on the device.then in disk mngr it shows unallocated, drive letter is gone, and it's not initialized. The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive (5TB) is incredibly spacious, reasonably fast, and since it has a class-leading 5 terabytes of storage, it costs only pennies per gigabyte. Then suddenly the drive doesn't appear anymore. backup i stored some recent important files on there because i couldn't access my cloud storage at that moment. So i have this 5Tb drive for about half a year now an i have been using it from time to time when storing data and using it as a.