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Southmountain13-Apr-23 20:49

Southmountain

13-Apr-23 20:49

look at these tools, one of them may help you to back up the file from the hard drive...

diligent hands rule....

jhaga13-Apr-23 23:55

jhaga

13-Apr-23 23:55

Kevin Marois wrote:
drive that my PC's are not longer seeing

Try different USB ports, try with all USB cables you have, different computers and operating systems.
Go to windows Disk Management and see if maybe you only need to assign a Drive Letter to the drive.

jhaga

theoldfool14-Apr-23 1:58

theoldfool

14-Apr-23 1:58

Won't help if it is the controller, but I have managed to recover data by putting the drive in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.

>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

Cp-Coder14-Apr-23 3:21

Cp-Coder

14-Apr-23 3:21

Try running Diskpart from the Powershell. At the Diskpart prompt type list disk. Diskpart will see the disk and list it even if it has never been formatted or partitions created. If the disk is not shown in the list of disks recognized by Diskpart, I am afraid I don't believe you can recover it. Good luck!

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

Ron Anders14-Apr-23 3:46

Ron Anders

14-Apr-23 3:46

If drive is a spinner:

If its clicking, it's over
If you can feel it spinning, there is hope
Crack open the case to extract laptop sized drive and hook it up to sata cables
somehow on another pc or sata to usb adapter to then see if you can see it.

I drive is an SSD:

Silly Wabbit, it's over.

Jeremy Falcon14-Apr-23 4:48

14-Apr-23 4:48

Is it a HDD with a mechanical failure? As in, do you hear the head attempt to move at all on the platter? If that's the cause, you'll need to carefully transfer the plates to another drive first.

If that's not the case and it's just a corrupted table maybe with a few bad sectors, most file recovery software can help with that.

More importantly, I haven't used HDDs in years, but even back then Seagate is what you used when you don't care about reliability. If it's important, remote backups or a RAID. If it's not important, move on with life. Smile | :)

Jeremy Falcon

honey the codewitch14-Apr-23 10:47

honey the codewitch

14-Apr-23 10:47

I almost guarantee it's a drive controller problem. Seagate drives do this to me too.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

Jeremy Falcon15-Apr-23 1:52

15-Apr-23 1:52

Oh snap. Yeah, wouldn't surprise me.

Jeremy Falcon

Jeremy Falcon14-Apr-23 4:48

14-Apr-23 4:48

Oh, you probably know this, but if you do have to transfer the platters to another drive... keep them far, far, far away from magnets during the process. And don't let the oil on your fingers get on them.

Jeremy Falcon

Eddy Vluggen14-Apr-23 7:52

Eddy Vluggen

14-Apr-23 7:52

There should have been a backup.

"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

theoldfool14-Apr-23 9:06

theoldfool

14-Apr-23 9:06

"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.

Rats!

>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

jschell14-Apr-23 13:17

jschell

14-Apr-23 13:17

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.

hmmm....I hope I outlive that a**hole across the street so I can dance on his grave.

So you are saying I am wasting my time?

Eddy Vluggen15-Apr-23 3:56

Eddy Vluggen

15-Apr-23 3:56

I'm saying next time you should make a backup. Sniff | :^)

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

dandy7214-Apr-23 9:18

dandy72

14-Apr-23 9:18

As others have said, if the drive isn't being seen at all by the host PC, it's unlikely any software will be able to offer much of a solution.

A data recovery service might move its platters to a drive with an identical board. How valuable is that data to you?

I'm not even going to mention backups at this time. I know the feeling, and it's not a good one.

jmaida14-Apr-23 14:34

jmaida

14-Apr-23 14:34

When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger

jmaida14-Apr-23 15:21

jmaida

14-Apr-23 15:21

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When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger

mngerhold16-Apr-23 23:13

mngerhold

16-Apr-23 23:13

I have recovered data from a drive which had an obviously blown component on its control board, by replacing such board with one from an identical (near enough) drive sourced from Ebay. Less hassle than transplanting the platters (which I have never done). But if it truly is only 5GB it will be very old and almost certainly unavailable.

jschell17-Apr-23 7:40

jschell

17-Apr-23 7:40

mngerhold wrote:
and almost certainly unavailable.

But still could be. I found some 5 GB hard drives and even a 21 MB hard drive with just a quick search.

mngerhold17-Apr-23 7:59

mngerhold

17-Apr-23 7:59

yes, there are a few - but it has to be the same model.

Everything's bigger in Texas

jschell18-Apr-23 5:54

jschell

18-Apr-23 5:54

Same model is certainly ideal but not necessarily required. There is another poster in this chain that noted they used a similar version.

But of course trying to find one that matches close enough without the technical expertise (and no docs) would make it difficult.

Peter_in_278013-Apr-23 18:13

Peter_in_2780

13-Apr-23 18:13

Holy cow!
18,000 cows killed in Texas dairy farm explosion - ABC News[^]

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

MarkTJohnson14-Apr-23 4:37

MarkTJohnson

14-Apr-23 4:37

Barbecue!

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

Jeremy Falcon14-Apr-23 4:51

14-Apr-23 4:51

People need to wake up. We've had more explosions and fires on farms in the past two years than in our entire lifetime. Any rational person would think either A: farmers are all masochists now or B: something else is going on. Connect the dots.

Jeremy Falcon

englebart14-Apr-23 5:19

englebart

14-Apr-23 5:19

The farmers are running meth labs to make ends meat?
(typo intentional)

Insurance fraud to cash out of losing business? Sell for 50% recovery or destroy for 100% recovery?

That has to be one heck of an explosion to do that much damage. What is the square footage to hold 18,000 cows plus feed stations, milking equipment, etc?