I have an old seagate

[Jesse]

I don't know what to to.
I was extracting a rar and my seagate just stopped working.
It's like 4 or 5 years old.
I am so sad.
Somebody help me.
I used the demo srs fix for it and it found like 80 gig of data.
I dunno how much it would cost to buy the program.
If it says it can see this data, does that mean it can save it?
Please help.
I don't really know much about these things but I have all my PAID FOR music and videos and years worth of pictures on it.
Thanks Jesse

[guru]

worth a punt

[wiseleo]

Jesse, the drive likely has bad sectors, which makes Windows fail while accessing it.

It's still a mild case. You have a choice - attempt to recover it yourself or have one of us help you. In the interest of saving you headaches, we found UFS explorer, @active undelete, r-studio, and getdataback work better than most other applications. Either of them should work for your purposes. If you don't want the headache and buying the software, you can work with someone from this forum.

Never ever run CHKDSK on a failing drive. Also, never recover data to the same drive. You will normally need two drives to recover from this. One as temporary storage and the other as permanent destination.