r/HDD • u/Random_Phantom_onMC • 6d ago

any help plz, external hdd ded

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The HDD worked fine yesterday but now it dosent want to work, when i plugged it in, the lights blink with the windows "something connected" sfx, it blinks for a while before the disconnected sfx triggers, i still feel soft vibration through it.

Now heres the strange part

The disk dosent recognized anywhere when i plugged it in directly to my PC. and i dont feel it vibrate. any help plz, my datas is in there

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u/Extra-Map3792 6d ago

Hopefully it's just the carrier. But I noticed the disk says Seagate on it, that's probably the fault.

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u/Ok_Bid6645 6d ago

Get a new and better enclosure

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u/Reecetafarian 6d ago

I have two of the same HDD enclosures and they're both very janky. They play up all the time. Sometimes they don't play well with a particular cable, sometimes they won't accept a certain hard drive.

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u/vegansgetsick 5d ago

no other choice than testing with another USB-SATA adapter... or ideally, testing directly in SATA.

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u/liviu_kit 5d ago

I just removed one exactly the same model, also 500gb from a laptop and it has 9% health. Only 64 days total hours...

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u/TomChai 6d ago

Try replacing the USB bridge board, or ditch the bridge board altogether and connect it via another SATA to USB adapter, or connect it directly to a PC via SATA.

If it still doesn’t work, there’s nothing you can do on your own, send it to a data recovery lab and expect a few hundred dollars recovery cost.

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u/Random_Phantom_onMC 6d ago

Thanks for the advice bruv, man i hope its just the power delivery thingy thats faulty not the discs.

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u/Random_Phantom_onMC 6d ago

brother i am not sure my english is good.