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How to save data from an external disk that died
A little under 4 years ago I bought a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5 TB external hard drive. It's worked fine for years, but recently it started having problems - it would disconnect and then ...
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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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suddenly new external harddrive not detected in windows, Ubuntu machines
I bought new external harddrive Toshiba Canvio Ready 1TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 External Portable Hard Drive (HDTP310AK3AA, Black)
and copied all data from my computer to external harddrive.
It fills about 900+...
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How To read disk from dead Zyxel NAS
I have the harddrive fra a Zyxel NAS. The NAS is dead, but the harddrive seems okay. How can I access it? If I mount it in af USB harddrive case, Windows can see the disk in Disk Manager, but Explorer ...
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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?
An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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External hard drive's data+ and data- cables shorted and hard drive is showing unallocated
When I was trying to connect my external SSD to my computer, the usb socket accidentaly shorted while PC was reading data inside and connection to SSD instantly lost. Now when I fix the short circuit ...
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Hard drive not detected
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I am desperately in need of finding the solution, so here goes.....
Back story :
Yesterday I dropped my phone on my laptop keyboard ...
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External disk fatal hardware error [duplicate]
I am trying to get access to my external hard drive and hopefully the data on it. However, my disk is not being recognized by the computer. I have tried opening Windows disk manager and it immediately ...
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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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How to delete bad saved files from external disk?
I have a external USB hard disk (Seagate if matters) of 1TB with 350GB of free space. I copied aprox 270 GB from computer to external disk. All looked fine, the free space then was aprox 70GB and data ...
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External HDD shows very low data transfer rate on different OS
There is a WD Elements 1 TB external hard drive disc that I'm trying to recover. It behaves strange but doesn't show the usual symptoms of a dying hdd (AFAIK). There are no scratching or clicking ...
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Black screen with only a cursor and security options when I plug my external hdd in
I recently dropped my external hard disk and it wouldn't spin after that and would only make some beeping sounds.
So, I searched on YouTube on how to fix it and opened it up and did this.
But, after ...
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what could I do to recover this external drive?
On my computer management I see a disk that has not been initialized:
that belongs to an external drive - a WD Passport
when I click on initialize disk
I get an error message - the request failed ...
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How to know if the External Hard Drive is dead? If confirmed dead, how to recover the data?
We have a 5TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim Portable that was bought on November 2018.
The person using it asked me to check it because suddenly he couldn't access it from his Computer.
So as the IT guy ...
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How do you diagnose an external hard drive that shows zero byte size?
A few days ago my external HDD dropped from the shelf. It is ADATA HD710 1TB USB drive. Now, when I connect it to my PC, it doesn’t show up in Windows Explorer. I can see it in DiskPart, though. In ...
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