Seagate External Disk Not Recognized (Seagate Suddenly Stops Working)

Case

I was transferring data from my Seagate external hard disk, but all of a sudden Windows stopped to ask me to insert a disk into drive. Then, I go back to "My Computer", but the Seagate external disk is no longer showing as an external device. Therefore, I reconnect the external hard drive to my computer again, but PC still cannot recognize the device. What should I do?

Do you have a Seagate external hard disk? Have you ever run into such kind of problem before? Usually, when you plug the Seagate external disk to your PC, system can recognize it as a portable device. However, your Seagate external hard disk might stop working owing to some reasons. If your Seagate external hard disk stops working, the most important thing for you is to recover data from the Seagate external.

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When Seagate external hard disk stops working, you need to rely on Seagate recovery software to get back files stored on the disk. Seagate recovery software enables you to deep scan the device even if it cannot be recognized by PC. With help of the Seagate recovery software, you can restore almost all kinds of data form unrecognizable external hard disk. By using the Seagate recovery software, you can also preview the found files after scanning, so you can evaluate the quality of the found files. If you feel satisfied with the found files, you can select all the files you need and recover them in batch within a short time.

Pay Attention Please

1. When Seagateexternal hard disk is not recognized by PC, it doesn’t mean that the external disk is damaged. Probably, it suffers some corruption due to virus infection, bad sectors and other reasons. In this case, you had better stop using the Seagate external hard disk.

2. Seagate recovery software is just a data recovery tool to help you recoverfiles from the Seagate external hard disk when it cannot be recognized. If you want to use the external disk again, you should make clearly the reasons for the problem.

3. When you use Seagate recovery software to recover data, you cannot save the found files to the original location.

4. Once files have been recovered, you had better backup the important files.

More Related Cases

1. My Seagate external hard drive is shown as an unknown device in "Disk Management", but it cannot show up in "My Computer". I cannot access or format the Seagate external hard disk. What should I do to fix the problem with data back?

2. Please help me! PC stops recognizing my Seagate external hard drive all of a sudden. The problem is that I haven’t backup data stored on the disk. Can anybody tell me what is wrong with my Seagate external hard drive? Is it possible for me to recover the files?

3. I bought a Seagate external hard drive yesterday. Just now, I backup all important files to this Seagate external hard drive from PC’s hard disk. Then I formatted the hard disk partition. However, my Seagate external hard drive cannot be recognized anymore. What to do next to get back the files?

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