Solved 2TB Seagate Expansion light flashing but not recognised

[funkychick7]

Hello

I have a problem with my seagate 2tb external hard drive.
when i connect the usb, i can hear it whizzing and the light flashes, but nothing comes up on the computer.

i have tried changing cables and adapters with no luck.
ive tried changing usb ports with no luck

ive tried going into disk management and it doesnt show up there either.

ive also downloaded the sea tools after googling the problem but nothing shows up there.

i recently transfered everything from a computer i sold over to the hard drive. i wanted to transfer it over to a second backup hard drive today but with no luck.

on he last use of the hard drive i did disconnect with the remove hardware safely option.



anyone give any suggestions please...

 

[jumanji]

1. Does the computer read other USB drives or is it only this drive a problem?

2. Did you try connecting this expansion drive to another working computer?

 

[funkychick7]

hi

yes the computer reads my other Buffalo 2tb drive

and i tried connecting the seqagate to a laptop but same problem

so im presuming its the hard drive at fault?

 

[jumanji]

OK, it is quite obviously a problem with the expansion drive. You said you had changed the adapter and so I take it it is not a power problem.

The only solution I can think of in this case is to remove the hard drive from its casing, connect it as a second internal drive on a desktop hoping that the problem is in the interface electronics and not the HDD itself.

But wait to see if others can come up with a less painful solution to try.

EDIT: If you have no requirement of recovering data, you may consider getting a replacement if your drive is still under warranty.

 

[funkychick7]

ok will do
thankyou

 

[Britton30]

It does seem likely the external drive has died. I'd not try disassembling it, some of them don't have standard HDDs inside and have soldered on connections.

 

[jumanji]

What Britton30 says may be true. May be not (with this drive). We do not know.

Can you please post the exact model no. of your Seagate Expansion drive?

Then may be someone who had actually skinned it out can tell what is inside and how connected. We can even try a google.

As I indicated, once you open it, you will void any warranty.

If it is out of warranty it shouldn't matter if you have to open it and see what best you can do unless someone comes up with a possible solution to try, without opening it.( Honestly I can't think of any.)

As I see it is a real difficult situation on which only you can decide.

 

[funkychick7]

ok quick update..

i went ahead and opened it because it was out of waaranty anyway... followed a tutorial from youtube to see how to open it.

i bought a dock t see if it would work with that and same problem. just the light flashes but will not come up on my computer or disk management.

i followed another solution on youtube via the commandprompt. and it said chkdsk not available for RAW drives.
does this mean the hdd has become RAW?

another thing that i have tried is on device manager, i uninstalled all the hidden greyed out disk drives and restarted.
i then got "other devices - usb" with a yellow triangle next to it. i tried to update driver but it says it cant find the drivers.

went to seagete to download the drivers but when i open the driver helper it doesnt recognise it.

please see inserted pictures

model number is ST320005EXD101-RK
seagate expansion 2tb

 

[funkychick7]

ok everyone.. good news... i have managed to get it working again...yayyyyyyyyyyyyy

can i post external links here so anyone needing help can see the solutions too?

 

[drantonis]

Hello! I think I have the same problem with my Seagate. My laptop was recognising the external drive until yesterday. Now it keeps showing an I/O error. Can you help me, please? What have you done to mke it working again?

 

[funkychick7]

Hello! I think I have the same problem with my Seagate. My laptop was recognising the external drive until yesterday. Now it keeps showing an I/O error. Can you help me, please? What have you done to mke it working again?

Hi

sory for the late reply, have been abroad..

here is a link i found and decided to go through each step.
it was somewhere in the middle of the page where it tells you about upper filters and lower filters. after this step, it still didnt work, but somehow i decided to restart the computer, the computer recogbised it had been chnged and wanted to fix the computer ( sorry dont know the technical term - think it was fixing the registery of somthing), but any way, after restarting, the computer installed the hardware and my harddrive was working again.

hope this page helps

en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-522124-external-usb-hard-drive-don-t-show-up

 

[drantonis]

Thanks for the reply! I'll try that too and I hope that it will work. Thank you for your help!

 

[leinaddan]

external drive blinking

Hello funkychick7

Could you explain how you solved your problem ? I have the same trouble and it seems my external drive shows RAW partition and windows shos not initialized and recovery software shows mbr has to be fixed ...
Is it only a power problem??? because when I turn off the PC it also turn off the external drive ?
Thanks
I don't want to loose my 2 To datas with 2 years of souvenirs

 

[reineken]

@funkychick7: Please post solution, i have the same problem.

 

[smilesonisama]

funnychick7

Hi ,
Could you please post the solution for the blinking light problem for Seagate Freeagent Hard drive?

 

[funkychick7]

Hello

first of all apologies to the other two users for me not replying, i had no idea and i didnt get any email either.. bt the solution link was posted couple posts above..

but here is it again

External USB Hard Drive don't show up ... [Solved]

I went through each solution and the one that worked for me was where it mentions lower filters and upper filters.
Althoughi did restart after deleting these, and after restarting, the computer repaired itself.

I am in another similar situation except the filter solution doesnt work with windows 8, so will try reading on the page.


Again here is the link
External USB Hard Drive don't show up ... [Solved]

 

[luispin]

Hi funkchick7,

Did you find a solution for Win 8 problem? I'm stuck with same problem in W8.
Thanls

 

[funkychick7]

Hi

No i didnt find a solution. Ended up paying a little to recover as i really needed them (a family members data)

Sorry cant be more help

 

[jblogz]

Hi Funkychick7,

Could you tell me how you managed to solve the problem? I have the same problem with a 1tb seafgate.

 

[funkychick7]

Hi Funkychick7,

Could you tell me how you managed to solve the problem? I have the same problem with a 1tb seafgate.

Hi

I went through this website

External USB Hard Drive don't show up ... [Solved]

and went through all the advice one by one. Halfway through my harddrive worked. Please do try them as something may work for you