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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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Why Windows can't see USB drive?

I was playing with live boot USB, and somehow it got corrupted. When I plug it into my PC it said it needs to format the USB. But when formatting it spat out an error along the lines of: "Windows ...
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clone recovery partition from usb drive to d: drive windows 10

I created a USB recovery drive using windows 10 tool in order to Back up system files to the recovery drive. Then when I was asked to empty D: from my PC in order to recover space I answered yes. But ...
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Folders stored on USB drive suddenly changed into unix executable file

I am a user of MacOS Big Sur, 11.2.3 (20D91). Just now I experienced the most weird incident in my history of using USB flash drives. I mounted a drive on the MacOS system, hoping to transfer four ...
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USB HD shows in 'Device Manager' but not 'Disk Management'

After various software and hardware (driver) issues on my laptop, I decided to back-up and then format, reinstalling Windows 7. While reaching for the portable drive, I dropped it, less than a foot. ...
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HDD capacity not detected correctly Ubuntu 14.04

My WD3200BUCT (320 GB HDD) stopped working. It had Win 7 (64 bit) installed. The problem at hand is that there is still some important data on it that I would like to recover. When I plug it into my ...
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ddrescue from drive intermittantly cutting out, ways to automate power cycling via software?

Have a failed Windows/NTFS drive. I was able to connect to another PC via USB-to-IDE cable and recover most of the drive with a Knoppix 7.2 LiveUSB and ddrescue/ddrutitliy. I've recovered most ...
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External HDD not detected

I have Seagate Expansion Portable Drive Model: SRD00F1 which is out of warranty unfortunately. There were problems in it which I was trying to fix. From these Problems that have been trying to fix ...
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read hard drive from dead laptop without formatting

I recently pulled the hard drive from a laptop with a bad power supply, and have plugged it into my pc via a USB-SATA bridge. Both drives come from Windows 7 machines. Windows recognizes the drive as ...
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Bootable USB with EaseUS that can recover from NTFS volume

I used EaseUS Todo Backup to backup my Win7 partition and then create WinPE bootable emergency USB. However, once I boot from USB I cannot access my NTFS volume where I put my backup. Is there a way ...
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