NathanP2007
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Okay so in my families living room we have had a Seagate Expansion 2TB 3.5in USB3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive at the computer desk for the past few years. It hasn't gotten much use at all but it has data on it we want.
Recently in a time of needing to use it, it has operated extremely slowly and wouldn't always show up in "My Computer" (Windows 10). Last night I tried to copy and paste the photos on it to the computer it's connected to and it was going at 0-200KB transfer speed and said it would take 10 hours, then after like 15 minutes it spit out an error and when I checked "My Computer" the drive was gone.
So today I opened up the enclosure, took our the HDD and tried putting it in my PC and into a HDD enclosure. The drive spins up, and in the HDD enclosure Windows installs the "ATA/ATAPI Bridge Driver." However nothing shows up in "My Computer."
The drive has never made any negative sounds (clicks or such). It spins up when I attempt to use it but just doesn't show up in Windows. Do you have any thoughts? Has anyone ever used a "Data Recovery" company before? TBH I'd pay a few hundred bucks to get the data recovered and onto a new drive. It's hard for me to imagine the failure is mechanical.
Recently in a time of needing to use it, it has operated extremely slowly and wouldn't always show up in "My Computer" (Windows 10). Last night I tried to copy and paste the photos on it to the computer it's connected to and it was going at 0-200KB transfer speed and said it would take 10 hours, then after like 15 minutes it spit out an error and when I checked "My Computer" the drive was gone.
So today I opened up the enclosure, took our the HDD and tried putting it in my PC and into a HDD enclosure. The drive spins up, and in the HDD enclosure Windows installs the "ATA/ATAPI Bridge Driver." However nothing shows up in "My Computer."
The drive has never made any negative sounds (clicks or such). It spins up when I attempt to use it but just doesn't show up in Windows. Do you have any thoughts? Has anyone ever used a "Data Recovery" company before? TBH I'd pay a few hundred bucks to get the data recovered and onto a new drive. It's hard for me to imagine the failure is mechanical.