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**Koschei** · 20-11-2011, 11:05

Does anyone know anything about recovering data from a bricked Seagate external hard drive? Throwing the cunting thing at the wall hasn't worked, funnily enough.

**CC_TA** · 20-11-2011, 11:12

SATA adaptor or send it in to geeks at a greatly inflated price.

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**shortarms** · 20-11-2011, 11:13

Try EASEUS data recovery, I've used it a few times. Free Data Recovery Software to free recover deleted files and recover formatted or corrupt hard drives - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

**A2_Matelot** · 20-11-2011, 11:15

Can you still power it up?

Look up "HIRENS Boot Disc"....its a CD image (may be DVD as well) and on it are a shed load of utilities, inc. data recovery.

You can also google freeware data recovery tools. Lots to try inc RECUVA and RESTORATION which may do the job.

If the data is really important the "pay for" tools are very good.

**Koschei** · 20-11-2011, 11:48

I've tried one or two of the freeware tools, but no joy so far. It seems to switch on (the 'power' LED lights up) but the drive itself isn't spinning up and my PC isn't detecting it at all.

**Hermes_R12** · 20-11-2011, 11:52

Give Simon a ring at Disklabs Computer Forensics

He's ex-forces and will give you a good deal.

**donmac** · 20-11-2011, 12:02

Had the same prob with a Maxtor. Local fixer couldn't fix, tried RECUVA and RESTORATION. Maxtor wanted thick end of £600 to retrieve. When I balked at the cost the smug cow told me "you don't think it's all that important then".
I'll give EaseUS a try. If that doesn't work I'll format it with a club hammer an donate it to the local land-fill.

**bad_pixel** · 20-11-2011, 15:02

why these things aren't standardised i do not know. I have one i toasted by plugging in the wrong power supply. why these things aren't standardised i don't know. I can see the little black thingy that is fried but reading what it is is difficult and it would be fiddly to replace and I still seem to exist without whatever was on it.

**Koschei** · 20-11-2011, 15:18

Thanks for the help, lads, but it looks like it's royally shagged. Losing these files is going to be a ball-ache, but it's not worth shelling out a couple of hundred notes for forensic recovery. Oh well, time to work out my frustrations by formatting the fucker with with a BFO rock-pick.