Seagate External 80GB HD stopped working...

Vigor · 06-25-2007, 03:48 PM

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.

evo3 · 06-25-2007, 06:02 PM

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

Vigor · 06-26-2007, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by 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

Thanks for the honest advice.

Quote:

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.
Today 06:12 AM

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

Quote:

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.

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

Thank you everyone.

munkyeetr · 06-25-2007, 06:12 PM

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

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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

Good to know for the future.

**The_Other_One** · 06-25-2007, 06:15 PM

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.

MixedLogik · 06-25-2007, 11:55 PM

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.

06-25-2007, 03:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Vigor Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Age: 19 Posts: 202	Seagate External 80GB HD stopped working... 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. __________________ DELL Precision M6400 Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8700 (2.53GHz 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz) Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 64-Bit Display:17" UltraSharp™ WUXGA (1920x1200) RGB LED Display 52" BRAVIA® XBR® LCD Flat Panel HDTV KDL-52XBR6 Memory: 4.0GB, DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMMS Hard Drive: 250GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M, 512MB Discrete Wireless Card Dell Wireless™ 1510 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card

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MixedLogik Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 539	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. __________________ Formerly ComputerGuru64x2 CPU: AMD Phenom X3 AM2+ 8650 @ 2.5Ghz MB: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H mATX GPU: ATI Radeon HD3200 512Mb @ 950Mhz RAM: Mushkin XP Series (2X2Gb) DDR2 @ 1066Mhz HDD: Western Digital 80Gb SATA SC: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio OD: LG DVD-RAM Sata CASE: nMediaPC Black mATX HTPC 200 Enjoy Synthesizers? Effects? DIY? ->http://sites.google.com/site/tech4music/

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06-25-2007, 06:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
evo3 Bronze Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Posts: 91	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