1 year ago
My 160 GB Seagate USB HDD stopped working. Can I recover it by taking the drive out of the enclosure and mounting it separately?
I have a Seagate 160 gig external hard drive. It's just stopped working--when I have it turned on, the power light and the light on the power brick blink very briefly, every couple of seconds, in unison. There's no activity on the drive: it doesn't make noise, doesn't try to spin up, etc. (When it's turned off, the light on the power brick is steady.) I'm not sure whether this was caused by my accidentally plugging my laptop power charger into the drive before I realized it was the wrong one, though I shouldn't think so--they're both 12V adapters...
Is the drive itself likely to be all right?
I have a hard drive hotswapping cradle which accepts internal HDs. If I pull the HD out of the external drive enclosure and put it in the cradle, can I pull my data off of it?
Is the drive itself likely to be all right?
I have a hard drive hotswapping cradle which accepts internal HDs. If I pull the HD out of the external drive enclosure and put it in the cradle, can I pull my data off of it?
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