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Title: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: Girgy85 on March 08, 2011, 04:01:30 PM Mother broke mine. Has all my photos music and files on etc.
Sommink rattling around inside and the thingy where u plug the lead in that attaches to computer is brokened. So is it repairable? and if not is it possible to recover all my data? Cheers Girgy x Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: kinboshi on March 08, 2011, 04:29:39 PM Depends. If the actual glass drive has shattered/cracked, then you might be in trouble.
Sometimes though it's the power and cabling that goes, and if that's the case the actual drive can be placed into a computer or into another external casing and can work perfectly fine. Other than that, sometimes the drive itself fails (the bit that makes it spin and reads the disc), and if that's the case then you might have to take it to a specialist who can sort that for you. Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: titaniumbean on March 08, 2011, 05:47:49 PM It's going to cost money but via a specialist you normally have a good chance of at least getting some portion of your data back. If you run bad you will have lost it all.
Harddrives are the suck, harddrives are the only alternative. sigh. buy lots. back up each back up onto a back up that is backed up using other back up drives. then hope to fk they don't break. Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: Marky147 on March 09, 2011, 12:43:45 AM My Seagate 1tb went bang the other day and ironically I had been thinking about getting an external for my desk to transfer all the data too. >:(
Obviously I hadn't and it stops working so I rang a data recovery company who said yeah should be fine to recover everything will cost about £300!!! I have it under warranty and most of the stuff was just tv shows and vids from vegas I have on my other pc anyway. I've just got a new drive on the way and kissed goodbye to the shows. If it's stuff that you really need then it's obv worth the money, if it's stuff that has no real sentimental value then it's just gg and get a new one Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: paulhouk03 on March 09, 2011, 01:39:29 AM My mate only uses his external hard drive to steal porn off other ppls pc and to stash his own collection
He is very proud of it. Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: Rod Paradise on March 09, 2011, 10:12:24 AM If the socket for the USB lead is broken then it'd be worth buying another enclosure & trying out the drive in it. £20 to see if the drive's OK instead of £300 for professional recovery you might not need.
I got this one off Amazon when I managed to drop my external drive & it worked fine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001T6ZUW2/ref=oss_product (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001T6ZUW2/ref=oss_product) Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: Girgy85 on March 09, 2011, 10:16:58 AM If the socket for the USB lead is broken then it'd be worth buying another enclosure & trying out the drive in it. £20 to see if the drive's OK instead of £300 for professional recovery you might not need. I got this one off Amazon when I managed to drop my external drive & it worked fine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001T6ZUW2/ref=oss_product (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001T6ZUW2/ref=oss_product) How do i get the case off the old one and transfer it over? Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: rex008 on March 09, 2011, 12:21:00 PM (http://toolmonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/DM_Sear5screwdrivers.jpg)
Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: Girgy85 on March 09, 2011, 02:41:47 PM (http://toolmonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/DM_Sear5screwdrivers.jpg) But inside is it tricky to get the drive out and install it into the new casing? Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: rex008 on March 09, 2011, 04:40:07 PM Depends how they've done it, but I can't imagine it would be. You don't even need a casing for these things, if you're ok with opening up your PC, you should be able to directly connect it (unless you've only got a laptop).
Alternatively (assuming it's a SATA drive internally, likely), get something like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-SATA-IDE-CABLE-HDD-UK-POWER-ADAPTER-/190421557699?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item2c560261c3 All you need, really. Power and data. But probably best to open it up and see if the drive has been obviously damaged before you splash out. They're pretty rugged though. Depends if it was switched on when it was dropped. If it was, more likely to be borked. Title: Re: Seagate expandable hard drive. Post by: Girgy85 on March 09, 2011, 05:23:52 PM Depends how they've done it, but I can't imagine it would be. You don't even need a casing for these things, if you're ok with opening up your PC, you should be able to directly connect it (unless you've only got a laptop). Alternatively (assuming it's a SATA drive internally, likely), get something like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-SATA-IDE-CABLE-HDD-UK-POWER-ADAPTER-/190421557699?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item2c560261c3 All you need, really. Power and data. But probably best to open it up and see if the drive has been obviously damaged before you splash out. They're pretty rugged though. Depends if it was switched on when it was dropped. If it was, more likely to be borked. Only run a laptop. Dont think its been dropped just knocked as i twas on the floor so mama g prob knocked it with hoover or summet :( |