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Originally Posted by MarcusLaw
hey this worked for me sometimes. When ever a hard drive/ storage device fails on a windows computer, put the hard drive into an enclosure and try to open it on a mac.
for some odd reasons Mac's can save the day. no soft ware needed lol. its what i did in the office when ever something like this (very rare) happens. just plug it in the mac and the mac will read it lol
and back up the data on the mac.
if that doesnt work bring it to like an ncix, see what they say.
seagates are the worse drives for reliability |: unless your using like baracudas for a server in a raid config.....
shouldve gotten a wdgreen or samsung f1. best of luck!
edit1: also a quick google search for a software, apparently this software works. it costs money though... but if you know how to get it for free *cough* then yea.. LOL Data Recovery Software Products - Runtime Software Products |
I can't imagine how any software would work if the drive can't be seen, but I'll give it a shot.
I got this drive long ago when seagate used to be the shit. Apparently they extended the warranty because they know this series is defected. It's the 7200.11. Had one failed on me before with all my porn in it, but luckily they had a recall on it and were able to retrieve the data. I'm sure they accessed the files on there to test if it worked.
