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Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 1st, 2018, 17:31

I currently have a HDD that is failing to be recognised by Windows.
I should point out that this drive is a storage drive and does not host an OS.

At the point of failure my machine was having a slowdown, to which I restarted the machine; which is when I found out that my HDD was no longer being recognised.

However, windows does recognise the drive in Disk Management (See screenshots)

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When the HDD is plug in and powered on it is making the following noise which may give some clues:
https://youtu.be/trbn8GNmeCw

At the moment I do not want to initialise the disk as there is data (photos) I need to pull off it first; anyone have any ideas what or how to fix the HDD?

Hard drive details
Serial No: S1D1Y0JF
Model: ST1000DM003
DOM: 04/2012

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 2nd, 2018, 17:19

The disk has a physical failure, but without the right tools you will not be able to repair it.

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 2nd, 2018, 17:37

Yeah, that's a heads failure, possible media damage as well. Only hope for recovery is to get it to a data recovery company.

If you're in the UK as your profile says, I'd recommend you go to http://pcimage.co.uk

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 3rd, 2018, 8:27

Off to a data recovery specialist it is.

Has anyone had any dealings with the following companies?
R3 Data Recovery Ltd (Sheffield)
Essential Data Recovery (Swadlincote, Derbyshire)

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 3rd, 2018, 18:07

I second pcimage

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 3rd, 2018, 21:23

I third PCImage.

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 4th, 2018, 1:40

+1 for PCImage

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 4th, 2018, 3:08

And I fifth PCImage.

Re: Seagate 1TB Barracuda not recognised.

July 4th, 2018, 3:46

Thanks guys!

The drive doesn’t sound very nice at all, definitely bad heads and likely media damage as well :-(
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