I have this Seagate Expansion Portable Drive 320GB at work. It was working fine until my co-worker unplugged its USB from the computer without safely removing it. When I plugged it back in the computer, the computer cannot detect it anymore. If it did, it would just show 'Local Disk (F)' as opposed to 'Seagate (F)' before. When I try to double-click on the drive, it would say that the drive is not formatted.

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The files in the drive is important as this is the archive of what our department has done for the past years. How can I repair the drive without formatting? If the drive is not repairable without formatting it, how can I recover the files before reformatting? Desperately need help in this. The drive was probably still finishing writing a file and the MBR was corrupted by the disconnection. There are a number of things that could work. If it shows up in disk management you can often just assign it a drive letter.

If it shows up in disk management and you can't just give it a drive letter, open the command prompt box type in chkdsk #: /R (where your problem drive letter is #) let chkdsk repair the damage Another that sometimes works is Go to My Computer, right click Properties select the Hardware tab, select Device Manager, find your external hard drive (USB mass storage device), if it has a red X, then click the drive and select to enable it. Sometimes it seems that you may need to uninstall the drive and then restart and that will repair it. If you can't seem to get it recognized with the above, then MBR Recovery is a useful tool. Hi, In this situation, you have to format your Seagate hard drive in order to use it further. But you may lose your data when the hard drive is formatted. Don't worry you can recover data from formatted hard drive with the help of Hard Drive Recovery software.

When I faced the similar situation I was able to restore Seagate SATA hard drive data by using this third party tool. For more details you can visit this website: That's total nonsense, he certainly should not format the drive. Quit trying to peddle your lousy software by lying.

Hello, I have a seagate portable 500gb hard drive, and yesterday I plugged it in, and it started beeping at me for about a minute or 2. The drive dont sound like its working, normally you can feel its working, there is nothing. I have tried a different USB cable, and have tried other computers. Its is not being recognised in my computer, or under disk management. The HDD is only a couple of months old, yet I have been told Seagate will charge me in the region of $3000 to recover the data, if I go local, (am in the UK) I can get it done for around £70, but then me warranty is void.

Is there any way of getting the data off, or even getting the Hard drive working again? The symptoms sound like a power issue. It may be that the USB port is unable to provide enough current to spin up the drive. USB 2.0 ports are current limited to 500mA whereas USB 3.0 can provide 900mA. A typical 2.5' drive requires about 850mA during spin up. If a USB 3.0 port is not available, then try a USB Y-cable.

This will pick up power from two USB ports. Alternatively, try a powered USB hub.

Alternatively, it could be that the drive has a seized spindle motor or a stiction fault (heads stuck to platters). This often happens if the drive has been bumped or dropped. Stiction can sometimes be overcome with a little 'percussive maintenance', but there are significant risks. To be honest, the more I search for an answer to the problem for seagate hard-drives corrupting like this. The more it seems like this is quite a problem for seagate hard drives. My Seagate FreeAgent 888gb external hard drive is driving me nuts! I've seen many posts related to the issues I'm having- is not recognized, recognized only as initio default controller, and now beeping.

Its is about 2 years old and has EVERYTHING on it. I've tried changing cables- didn't work. Changing computers- didn't work. More drasticially, i've removed it from the casing and plugged it directly into my SATA port. The good news ( i guess) is that the computer does recognize the drive under device manager, but in disk management, it says the disk is not initialized. (funny thing is--- it doesn't beep when found by the computer???) When I've tried to initialize it- it gives me an I/O error message. I'm at my wits end and would really like to recover the 10+ years worth of photographs I have stored on this drive.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! To be honest, the more I search for an answer to the problem for seagate hard-drives corrupting like this. The more it seems like this is quite a problem for seagate hard drives. 'I'll never buy another Seagate product again and I'll spread the word to anyone who will listen what horrible bait-and-switch products these Seagate external hard drives are.' Sorry that happened to you, but I hope by now you understand the meaning of the word 'backup.' Just in case, it means having your data in two different places at the same time, so if one drive fails, like your external did, you still have your stuff safe and sound on the other drive.

I repair computers and every week I have people coming to me asking if I can save their data. Many times the data can be saved at nominal cost, sometimes the drive has to be sent to data recovery specialists who use special tools and a 'clean room' to attempt recovery. And sometimes the data is gone.

There are lots of moderately priced cloud backup services. But one thing's for sure: Hard drive failure only occurs when you don't back up.

It's one of those 'Murphy Law' things. Guys, I don't know about you all, but I had the same issues, here's my analysis!

The problem:HDD doesnt connect or when it does, it makes beeping sounds! The kicker:When The HDD connected, there was a virus scan going on, as soon as the scan completed, the HDD got disconnected (No virus was ever found till date) The Solution: Turned off external drive scan, and viola, the drive connected!! Dnt know if it is strange, but I suggest doing it P.S: The drive didnt get noticed when connectd via a USB 1.0 or 2.0 Hope this helps!

First of all always have at least two places for data, older traditional drives are prone to failure. Maagold Tv Serials Pellante Noorella Panta. Remember that hard drives definitely have a shelf life, after a couple years (and thats generous) be careful especially with a less expensive manufacturer. That being said If you have a old hard drive with the beeping noise, that is a built in capability to tell you its malfunctioning. Now if its a powered drive you're pretty much toast, if it is BUS driven, a drive that boots up solely from usb/firewire you may still have hope.

The key is to try to get power to that puppy to start spinning again. I have an old hard drive that was removed from an early 2008 macbook pro that I load with a bunch of movies, which are backed up elsewhere. Not that important its an old 5400 drive.

So a couple times i've gotten the beep of death. Simply plug that usb cable in a lower amperage phone charger for a second. Sure enough the thing starts spinning, unplug immediately and it should be good to go if you plug it into the computer ASAP. This probably won't work much longer, but it's light at the end of the tunnel!

Obviously I would NOT recommend if you are trying to recover sensitive data, INSTEAD USE a powered case and or cable. And as for the charger, a lower amperage the better, I would be sketched out plugging a drive into a 2A tablet charger.

But mainly just be aware spinning drives are not invincible. The spinning parts are more susceptible to error in an external drive too because its being chucked around. AGAIN ALWAYS BACK UP THE BACK UP OF THE BACK UP, traditional hard drives are so f*%%&^$(%^&ing cheap now too, no excuses. I just had the same problem and I did this and it worked. This is a mixture of what two previous people wrote on here and just repeating it in my words and exactly what I did.

Unplug it from the computer 2. Disconnect the usb cord from the hard drive 3. Blow into the connection port 4.

Plug both back in. Here is where when I still got the beeping and it not being recogonized. I then tapped it on my desk on the two sides and then I heard the inners working again and it just popped up on my screen. Works now just as it used to. I know solution will sound a bit stupid but it worked for me so i thought i would share it. I had the same problem with my seagate 1tb.

I look for the solutions online. After watching a video on youtube i found out that its just because the head of the disk is stuck. And in that video he actually open the hard disk and moves the head and it start to work. But he also warns about if you actually open the hard disk it becomes useless and it will lose the warranty too. So instead of opening it i just banged it in my hand from all corners and it worked.

Try this before actually opening it or going to some professional. And good luck. I had the same problem (albeit almost 5 yrs after this question was posted) and I found my own solution (which might apply to others). I had read that oftentimes if the power supply to the external HD is inadequate, there can be detection issues accompanied by strange sounds. In my case, I heard a 'chirping' noise coming from the HD. Normally I connect it to a Targus 4-port USB hub (along with 3 other devices).

When I tried connecting directly to my laptop rather than to the Targus USB hub, the noises and detection issues were resolved. I believe the targus hub, in splitting power among 4 devices, was providing inadequate supply to the HD to operate and be recognized properly. I'll let you know if this solves the problem permanently or whether this was just a lucky break for the time being. I just purchased a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Drive two days ago.

I plugged it into my desktop sometime late last night. Had no problems with it being recognized. I then proceeded to copy over a 38.5GB folder and at some point during the copy process (or after copying had completed) It started beeping. Although I had been sitting right there at my computer, I was watching some BrEXIT videos on YouTube and had my headphones on, so I don't know how long it had been beeping. The folder appears to have copied over without error and I have the drive plugged into a powered USB hub. Now every time I plug it back into it beeps.

Gonna try and do some troubleshooting to determine if the beeps happen across the board or if for some reason it's isolated to that hub. Fortunately I did register the driver with Seagate the same night I purchased it. This is the first Seagate HDD that I've had in a long time. So if this turns out to be something (or anything) to do with the drive itself, then that'll be it for myself and Segate. If I discover anything worth sharing during my troubleshooting efforts I'll come back and provide an update.

UPDATE: As many of you said, it was an issue with the power to the drive. To be honest, I have too many external USB drives connect. Reason being is that 3 of the SATA ports on the mobo are broke. My solution was to grab a couple of the NXT USB expanders (plug into the USB head on the mobo). This did the trick. But now with at least 7 HDD plugged into those NXTs and the other various ports I have a USB HDD plugged into, it's ended up drawing too much power on some of those ports.

Using a tool like USBtree. You'll be able to see how much power each individual USB pot is actually drawing (there's quite a bit more that USBtree can tell you;l ie.

What devices are plugged into which ports). This is helpful, if your in a situation like mine, are experiencing some of the same symptoms/problems that I was, or what to simply know which USB ports provides the most electrical power to devices plugged into it (which would be good to know if you have a high draw device/peripheral (or an older USB peripheral.or can't find the AC adapter for a device, or have the need to daisy chain a a bunch of external USB HDDs together. NOTE: from both a feature viewpoint and from a UI/usability point of view USBtree takes a bit of figuring out.it's not the most intuitive app/utility that I've ever used. In fact, it probably was one of the least friendly/intuitive. However, in the end it did tell met what I needed to know and had the information that I was looking for find. Akele Hum Akele Tum All Song Free Download more.

-- I was also able to determine that one of my older 2.5' external USB HDD what I thought had started making the 'click of death' actually wasn't. Just as with that [then] new Seagate portable 1TB external HDD, the problem actually had something to do with the power draw on the USB port not being sufficient to meet the demand being placed on it. I had the same problem (albeit almost 5 yrs after this question was posted) and I found my own solution (which might apply to others).

I had read that oftentimes if the power supply to the external HD is inadequate, there can be detection issues accompanied by strange sounds. In my case, I heard a 'chirping' noise coming from the HD. Normally I connect it to a Targus 4-port USB hub (along with 3 other devices). When I tried connecting directly to my laptop rather than to the Targus USB hub, the noises and detection issues were resolved. I believe the targus hub, in splitting power among 4 devices, was providing inadequate supply to the HD to operate and be recognized properly. I'll let you know if this solves the problem permanently or whether this was just a lucky break for the time being.

Best, KE I believe this has resolved my issue. I have this beeping issue on my Seagate 2Tb External HDD (Funny it is also a Seagate).

It is connected to a USB3.0 port and the sound is driving me nuts, it seems like every week it is getting louder and more persistent, it seems to beep every.5 - 2 seconds now. The sound is from my Seagate 2Tb External HDD. I wonder if it is a mechanical flaw as reading this thread, Seagate comes up very often. If I had a free 2 Tb on an internal HDD I would copy the whole thing across to internal and disconnect this external to save my ears.

EDIT: The Seagate External HDD has officially snuffed it. Windows states that the drive needs to be formatted when I plug it in and Windows goes berserk while it is plugged in causing almost every program to get the Windows error saying it has stopped responding and the process must be ended, but the process will not end. This HDD is also the reason why my machine would not shut down, restart or log off as it caused Windows to perma-hang trying to log out or shut down. Disconnecting the HDD makes my OS purr like a kitten.

Now I have to find out if a Data Recovery center can recover as much (if any) of the 1.8Tb of data from the now defunct HDD, plus purchase a new 2Tb external HDD (This time NOT Seagate!!!). I had the same issue. It seems seagate hard drives are just worst out there. The issue actually is its the circular disk in the hard drive that gets stuck somehow. So I opened up my hard drive (my warranty was already expired, and didn't had any other option), but I accidentally damaged the read/write heads. But then I banged it a bit moderately (although frustratingly), and when I hopelessly re-assembled the hard drive the circular disk started to spin again just fine, but I had already damaged the read/write heads, so it didn't worked. Now I'm looking for their replacements.

So my sincere suggestion to you is to open only the external case of the hard drive (not the actual hard drive) and moderately bang the lower side of it several times. Also make sure that the usb to hard drive connector is properly inserted in the hard drive (press it inwards to be sure). If you are lucky it might work just fine for you. Otherwise if you still have the warranty in place, say good bye to your data and just order a replacement for your drive. Thats the safest option. Hope my experience will help you.

[Note- Opening only external case of the hard drive DOES NOT void your warranty]. Hello, I have a seagate portable 500gb hard drive, and yesterday I plugged it in, and it started beeping at me for about a minute or 2. The drive dont sound like its working, normally you can feel its working, there is nothing. I have tried a different USB cable, and have tried other computers. Its is not being recognised in my computer, or under disk management. The HDD is only a couple of months old, yet I have been told Seagate will charge me in the region of $3000 to recover the data, if I go local, (am in the UK) I can get it done for around £70, but then me warranty is void.

Is there any way of getting the data off, or even getting the Hard drive working again? Hello, I have a seagate portable 500gb hard drive, and yesterday I plugged it in, and it started beeping at me for about a minute or 2.

The drive dont sound like its working, normally you can feel its working, there is nothing. I have tried a different USB cable, and have tried other computers.

Its is not being recognised in my computer, or under disk management. The HDD is only a couple of months old, yet I have been told Seagate will charge me in the region of $3000 to recover the data, if I go local, (am in the UK) I can get it done for around £70, but then me warranty is void. Is there any way of getting the data off, or even getting the Hard drive working again?