Vigor

Last night it just stopped working for some reason...

The adapter light is green, the hard drive turns on, but it just popped a error: Unknown Device. After reconnecting the hard drive this time it didn't show the message, but still didn't work...

I saved a load of music and other multimedia files, that I HEAVILY invested my time in.

I would be much appreciated if someone found me the right solution.

Thanks.

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evo3

the next time try not to buy seagate hard disk, i was a former staff in seagate and i know all the stuff, for me i dont use and dont like to purchase seagate hard disk. think about it my friend

munkyeetr

I would try plugging it into another system as a slave drive and extract the data (if possible) that way.

Good to know for the future.

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The_Other_One

I beleive Seagate has really gone down hill, as many other drives have... As mentioned, try taking it out of the enclosure and using it internally. Maybe just the enclosure/USB to IDE converter died.

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ComputerGuru64x2

Western Digital is really dominating the Hard Drive business along with Maxtor, but I have never used a Seagate hard drive, I have always used Western Digital. I have never had a problem with Hard Drive failure.

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Vigor

Thanks for the honest advice.


Yup you were right, it works on my desktop just fine. Going to buy another external hard drive and transfer them there.

Thanks, my external hard drive broke within a year or so


Thank you everyone.

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Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7400 (2.16GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)
Operating System: Genuine Windows® Vista Ultimate 2007 32-bit
Display: 52" BRAVIA® XBR® LCD Flat Panel HDTV
KDL-52XBR6
Memory: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM
Hard Drive: 100GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
Video Card: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GTX
Sound Options: Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™ HD Software Edition
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