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External Hard Drive not recognized
As the title suggest my external Seagate hard drive is no longer being recognized by my system. The information on this is absolutely critical to me- I am a DJ and Producer and this particular drive contains all of my song stems, acapellas, instrumentals, sample kits, and also backups of every program I use (as well as my OS backup).
I just recently moved into a new apartment and my drive worked fine before the move 2 days ago. I do not think I bumped it or damaged it (seeing as how I always put them in safe places on the go) and it is now no longer working.
Here is what I can tell you so far:
The device has been connected to 4 usb ports and works on none.
The device has been connected to my secondary OS (watered down live
performance side) on my cpu- a whole different OS but same hardware.
The device has been connected to a 2nd computer
My other 2 drives in addition to all of my DJ usb equipment work well.
All devices have been power cycled, rebooted, etc etc
The device is recognized under Disk Manager as "disk 1" and when I try to change properties I cannot. I try to "initiialize" the drive and get "data error- cyclic redundancy check"
There is no famous "clicking noise"
I have taken apart the case and cleaned the contacts on the HD's board with an eraser (to no avail).
The device has been connected to a powered Multi-TT usb hub and does not work (though my other HD's do). Note: I notice that under normal circumstances a green "power" light is lit when a device is connected to the hub. This light turns on for my other HD's but NOT for this one.
That is the most detailed description I can give at the moment. The device is not recognized right away as a USB Mass storage device- it takes a little while for the system to recognize it. This worked quite literally 2 days ago and does not work now (with no system changes).
I need this to work badly (or at least be able to extract the info to another drive).
Edit: Now correctly reflects circumstances
Last edited by onelove; 24 Aug 2011 at 22:11.