BROKEN HARD DRIVE (Seagate Barracuda LP 1 TB)

[torquis]

Hello everyone;

Well, you see, I have this hard drive that I'm using in a (all in 1 hdd docking) holder.

When it appears on the computer, I try to open it and I get the message: "Insert a disk in drive K."

If I try to format it, it says "There is no disk in drive k, insert a disk and try again"

I should say that this hard drive is external, that is, it's where I store photos and other things.

I've tried using Seagate's own tool "seatools" but all the options give me an error.

I've also tried connecting it to another computer, but curiously, on another laptop I have, the hard drive unit doesn't even appear.

The thing is that from Windows 7, the hard drive unit does appear, but when I try to use programs like "victoria, hdd regenerator or hiren.s boot, the unit doesn't appear.

As for the diagnosis, when starting the hard drive, that is, when turning it on from the vertical holder, it makes a little noise like it's spinning, that is, there is power, maybe the little noise is something suspicious, but not very loud, and then it does nothing.

Well, I'm running out of ideas to recover this hard drive, does anyone have another treatment?

It hasn't suffered any bumps or falls.

[Clipper]

hello
click it inside a PC
regards

[Dan_DRAgON]

Hello. I had a similar problem a year ago and it was a virus. It wouldn't even let me enter the disk reader to put in the Windows programming disk.

It may sound pretentious to leave it to a virus to give you that problem, but it happened to me and it was because someone with an infected USB infected the machine. I ran antivirus and other things like superantispyware, and I managed to save some data but only that way did I manage to get into the hard drive.

Try putting it in directly with SATA or a SATA/IDE to USB adapter to see if it reads it and you can rescue something with an antivirus. And it should be a system that you haven't used so that the antivirus can detect it.

And on the other hand, it's not necessary for a hard drive to fall, sometimes rough handling is passing it through electrical environments that it can't support. (this doesn't have to be voluntary, it just happens). And another is that you may have hit the 1 in 1000000000, that had to go wrong.

I hope you have luck with your problem.

[Fassou]

Unless it is one of the famous Seagate 500GB (in which case there is a DIY solution), the only test before ending up sending it to a data recovery service or considering it a new paperweight, is what Clipper says about connecting it directly to a PC, without intermediaries.

Salu2!