Seagate Portable Hard drive failed :( probably no other checks I can do? Said I can get replacement?

System

OP I'm I missing something here?

How much does is this hard drive cost?

I just bought a 1TB portable drive for £40 and if it ever failed on me i would just destroy it and buy another one even if it failed within a week

googler

Tarambor wrote: »

Personally knowing how many times over the years I've dealt with external HDDs and it is the USB to SATA adapter in the caddy that has failed I would remove the hard drive from its case and either connect it directly to a PC via SATA cables or try another enclosure.

Agree

If you want to access it,

First, try another connecting cable of known performance, and/or another USB port on your PC

If no luck with that, open up the casing, remove the actual drive from the USB caddy around it, and connect it directly to your PC, either with another USB caddy of known performance, or as an internal drive.

Buy or borrow SATA and power cables, connect these to spare SATA slot and power loom inside the PC, and to the drive. You don't have to mount the drive physically inside a bay in the machine, that's optional, you could just lay it somewhere flat and non-metallic and don't move it around in operation

Let us know how these options work out

There are YouTube guides in abundance which will show you how to do this step-by-step, but ask again if you want advice here

tonyh66

OP there is one thing you can try.
Buy an identical HD same model/spec. Take both HDs apart and swap the controller board from new to old, the data on the actual platters should be ok. This has worked for me in the past. If it doesn't work then just put the new one back together and all you have lost is the old drive.

poppellerant

tonyh66 wrote: »

OP there is one thing you can try.
Buy an identical HD same model/spec. Take both HDs apart and swap the controller board from new to old, the data on the actual platters should be ok. This has worked for me in the past. If it doesn't work then just put the new one back together and all you have lost is the old drive.

It isn't a good idea to try it these days, as the PCB has a chip which has information specific to that very drive, it's platters and the heads.

Myth: I can swap the PCB from my bad hard drive with a good hard drive’s PCB and recover my data.

tonyh66

poppellerant wrote: »

It isn't a good idea to try it these days, as the PCB has a chip which has information specific to that very drive, it's platters and the heads.

Myth: I can swap the PCB from my bad hard drive with a good hard drive’s PCB and recover my data.

As written on a website that provides a data recovery service for $300, I wonder if their information is unbiased? I haven't personally done the swap for years so it may be true.

googler

tonyh66 wrote: »

OP there is one thing you can try.
Buy an identical HD same model/spec. Take both HDs apart and swap the controller board from new to old, the data on the actual platters should be ok. This has worked for me in the past. If it doesn't work then just put the new one back together and all you have lost is the old drive.

I hope you mean "take the USB caddy apart, and leave the HDD unopened", not "take the actual HDD apart, exposing the platters to the local atmosphere" ...

unforeseen

There may not be Sata connectors on the HD inside. I know some wd hard drives have the USB side of things built into the HD electronics itself

poppellerant

tonyh66 wrote: »

As written on a website that provides a data recovery service for $300, I wonder if their information is unbiased? I haven't personally done the swap for years so it may be true.

There are plenty of other sources, including YouTube, which say the same thing. I was sceptical about linking to their site, but it was the first Google result.