Hi,
I have a Seagate GoFlex 500GB external hard drive. I got it connected to Windows and was formatting it. Unfortunately it got disturbed during formatting. After that I connected again on Windows but the drive didn't show up. It didn't show up anywhere yet.

I tried it on Windows (Vista &XP). No go. It didn't show up even in disk management. I couldn't go further on Windows.

I tried Gparted. No luck. Tried bunch of *nix(Ubuntu, Fedora, BSD, Mint and Mageia) live CDs. None found the drive. None in lsusb.

After all these failed, I opened the drive and directly put it on two different laptops and ran *nix live CDs. Again none of them found the drive.

Is there anything else that I can try? Or it's time to trash it.

Havent you checked whether the drive is still under warranty ?
You might get a replacement - and as you arent looking for
a data recovery that is the best solution.

Check it online:

http://support.seagate.com/customer/en- ... jsp?form=0

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hi Pcolly,
as you seem familiar with util disks, you could try MHDD included in collections such as UBCD, Hirens Boot CD and also from this site in downloads.

As before, use native sata power and data cables and once started, listen for spin up.

Start MHDD and see if that identifies the drive.
If so, try 'initialise' and 'fdisk' commands from the menu.

F1 pulls up a list of commands, and typing the initial letters to a command and using TAB will offer completion of command. fd<tab> ...fdisk and so on

If successful, exit system and try 'format' again.

gl

Kern

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Did that. Seagate says it's an OEM product and I have to contact the OEM. Actually it was on fire sale at a retailer (Staples).

Thanks for the info!!

@digitalferret:

I will try that.

Thanks.