How To Easily Recover Data From A Broken Seagate External Hard Drive 

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What a lifesaver, I thought I had lost unreplaceable wedding and family videos. My connection was damaged, but it wouldn't pop up on my computer. I took off the adapter and slapped into external case I had lying around and it popped right up. Thanks for the video and thanks to seagate for not soldering to a board. Seagate for life.

Great video! I've got a seagate drive and the connection looks fine. I took it into the local computer shop and they said I would have to pay a data recovery firm to try and pull the information of it . They said it didn't "post" on their machine. Given all this, is there another way to get the information of a seagate drive? The cost of data recovery is around $1000. thanks.

Thx for your instructions! But my Problem is different. My external Hard Drive fell to the ground several times and now when I plug in the Hard Drive, it becomes weird noises and the PC doesn't recognize my external Hard Drive anymore. Is it now totally broken or not?

Is there any way to do a video on how to fix head failure after a fall (and not just the connector?) Thanks!

For that one other person out there who has an old Fantom external drive that came with an eSATA port and eSATA cable - if it fails, try the usb-b port that is on the drive if it has one; it's shaped like a square. Buy a cable with usb-a on the other end since the eSATA connector on your computer may be bad. I didn't even know it was a type of usb port. Luckily, my old Canon printer came with one of those cable so I just plugged it in and it worked.

for external hdd go for seagate brand.. I have external toshiba and I thought toshiba have removable connector.. good to buy enclosure external and 2.5 ssd or hdd for inexpensive maintanace.. thanks man.. buti di ko masyadong nilalaspag 1tb pa naman..

Thank you for great explanation 👋 but I was stressed and I hit my hard drive and I think I won't be able to recover my files anymore 😓

where do you buy the sled? I cannot find it anywhere online

Thank you! You helped me solve my problem. Appreciate the video and guidance.

Where can we find/buy this magical "sled" device?

Hey buddy.. Mine is seagate too but it's an earlier version which is quite big like a brick and heavy.. Is it safe to open it and follow your steps? 😢

Thank you for this content! Looks like I need to buy a sled.

what of sled could be used in order to perform the distraction of files

How did you remove the cover to open the drive? It wasn't very clear. Thanks.

My seagate is making a beep, I just want to back it up if I can, can you make a video on that or do you have one?

Just a question. I have an old Seagate hard drive. That I can't find the software for Maxtor how do i retrieve my photos off it?

How ensures is this method? Is there any risk of lost data by doing this? I have so many near and dear to my heart files, and all of a sudden my laptop doesn’t find it… the plug in sound and the light turns on but I can’t find it in anywhere not even in Disk Management… what should I do my brother?

Hello, my name is Mark. Sir, how do I get the device sled as you spoke in the video to recover data from a damaged external drive. I have several external that I need to recover some lost data. Thank you and great videos.

Thank you so much!!!😎

brilliant video thank you

I just moved most of my data of 25+ years last night to a Seagate SRD00F1. I left it on over night. When I plugged it in this morning, windows sees the drive, but it is not accessible. Do you think this trick may work if I open it and move it to a caddy?

Okay, thank you. BUT... how did you get the case open? Thanks!

I ripped out a 2TB drive form the older seagate external drive. put it into a USB drive adpater. but cpmputer managemnt wants to format the disk. the 3 partitions 1 raw, and 2 UN-allocated. this seems strange when it was working, buit the external connected died and was all working before that. it's an older usb-2 , btu was workign before the older usb-2 plug would not connect in anymore.

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I have a second drive that still works, could i replace the adaptor on the broken one with the adapter on the one that works?

Where can I buy that usb adapter?

Is it a Helium Hard Drive?

I have 8tb séagate I also has a power cable I would be the same ?

Do you know what the problem is if the hard drive is taking forever to transfer or reading a file? It took several hours before my Mac was able to registered the hd. Now I’m trying to transfer all the data onto my desktop and it’s taken days and it’s still on “preparing files for download”

I have a question. If you, or anyone else here can help, please! Now, I have a Seagate Drive which I purchased from Costco. My computer (and others, I tried it on others thought it was just my computer) recognizes it fine, all the time, all files pop up (ironically, the small light on it ironically does not appear). HOWEVER, I cannot access the files, and each time I get the option for "scanning and repairing", it is never able to do so. I do not think my files are encrypted, but do any of you know what might be going on? If anyone can help, I would be eternally grateful. I thankfully have many backup files on a small USB, but I have many other files on the seagate (that I have been working so hard on) that I need to backup onto another seagate that was purchased for me.

Whats the thing called

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I hwve hitachi hdd 500 gb it doenst show any partition nor in device managment nor in driver ..! Ita all hidden i tried many software none works when i connect it i just hewr a sound of fan a nd the led light turn on and doesnt flash .. how can i fix it ..??

Plz help me I do not wan to loose my data from my Seagate HDD

Please, please do not set that hard drive from which you removed the broken connector off to the right where the port cannot be seen. One would need to see the port configuration of the hard drive which is plugged into your "sled" Please spend a few seconds to show the ports you are connecting. You took too much time showing the broken USB port and the connector. Show the sled port and the hard drive port being connected at good close-up. Otherwise this demo is not ultimately useful. Thanks for the leads in any case..

Seems like my EHDD has bigger issues than a broken connection 😢

Nice video... and by the way, I thought you were Roger Federer... Just kidding

Just blew right over the Toshiba which I have....i didn't get anything from that.

Really enjoy the content, at the moment. Quick and useful videos. Just like @NorthridgeFix

I drop mine while tranfering

Get a sata dock station... Data shows right up

6:18 ...Uhhhhh.....what??

Try talking slower and more clearly, i could not understand most of what you said and i am an english speaking person, you were talking to fast.

Jeez mate. STOP WAFFLING and get to the POINT! You obviously know what you are doing but you make it all so tedious by running your mouth so much.