How to fix and repair failed Seagate external hard drive

without losing data

"Help! My Seagate external hard drive failed to respond when I connected it with my
computer, trying to save some new files in it. I tried several times but nothing showed up on
my computer. My computer cannot recognize the Seagate external hard drive.
So how can I access my data in the drive? If you know how to access my data in Seagate
external hard drive, please let me know."
"Is it possible to fix unrecognized external hard drive? My Seagate external hard drive failed
to respond and nothing was checked. What can I do to fix this problem? And how can I get
my data back?"

It's no longer a new problem that quite a lot external hard drive users have to face data loss
issue when their external hard drive suddenly become RAW, inaccessible, or unrecognized
by computer due to virus attack, false operation or other reasons. So what can you get such a
problem fixed when your storage devices not respond? Here in this article, we'll show you an
example of how to fix failed Seagate external hard drive without losing any data. And you
can follow to fix all failed to respond or undetectable storage devices and restore all lost data
with ease now.

Quick Fix: Connect Seagate external hard drive to a new USB port or PC

You can directly change your Seagate external hard drive or other failed storage device to a
new USB port or new computer to see whether your device is really wrong or not.

Note: 1. Please notice that you should identify whether your external hard drive, SD card,
memory card or USB drive etc storage devices have the logical error or physical damage.
2. If the drive or storage device such as Seagate external hard drive is logically damaged or
has a logical error, you can directly follow the below-offered solutions to fix it and restore all
data.
3. If the storage device or devices are physically damaged, please take your device to a
manual data recovery center for getting your damaged external hard drive repaired and data
restored.
 Part 1. Fix and repair failed Seagate external hard drive

Here in this part, you'll find several methods to make or force failed Seagate external hard
drive to show up in PC. If your device fails to show up or cannot be recognized by PC, just
follow to get fix the failed Seagate external hard drive now:

Method 1. Force failed Seagate external hard drive to show up

Change path letter when an external hard drive fails to show up.

 Go to Control Panel > Click Administration > Computer Administration;

 Go to Storage > Click Disk Management;
If you need to directly get all data back now, you may jump to Part 2 to recover data from
your failed storage device such as Seagate external hard drive.
If you want to try and make your Seagate external hard drive or storage device to show up
and work again, you may continue with follow steps to change path letter of your drive:
 Find your external hard drive and right click it by choosing Change Drive Letter and Path...
 Assign a letter to the drive with a new letter that doesn't exist in your PC and mark the
Partition as Active;
 Click OK.
 Restart PC and your External hard drive will show up and work again.

Method 2. Make failed Seagate external hard drive to show up by uninstalling

drivers
 Click on Start > Type: devmgmt.msc and hit Enter;
 Open Device Manager > Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers > check out whether any
device show up as unrecognized;
 If it shows unrecognized, go to the drivers tab and delete/uninstall the driver; Then check out
whether the external hard drive shows up in My Computer/My PC or not;
 If it doesn't show up, reboot or restart PC;
 If it shows up but disappear later, repeat above steps and go to Disk Management > change
drive letter OF YOUR EXTERNAL DRIVE ONLY > Go and select one new drive letter up
from where it last showed up by clicking Change, and click OK to confirm. Then failed
Seagate external hard drive can be read and detected now.

Method 3. Reinstall USB controller to fix failed Seagate external hard drive
 Click Start > Type: devmgmt.msc and hit Enter;
 Open Device Manager > Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers;
 Right-click USB Root Hub > Properties > Power Management > uncheck Allow the
computer to turn off this device to save power;
 Repeat this process for each USB Root Hub in the list and reboot to try again. Then your
computer may be able to read the failed Seagate external hard drive again.

Part 2: Restore data after fixing Seagate external hard

drive failure error

After fixing failed Seagate external hard drive which fails to respond or react, you shall check
whether you can access your data in the drive or not. If you have lost some files or data on
the drive, or still cannot access all the data in your drive, relax. Here you may try
professional hard drive recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to directly get all
your files and data back from your failed Seagate hard drive now:

By going through three short stages, you can easily find lost data on a Seagate external hard
drive.

Scan the Seagate drive -> Display files in categories -> Check results and recover

Follow the detailed guide:

Step 1. Under the "External Devices", you should see the Seagate external hard drive
showing up after it's correctly connected to your computer. Select the drive and click the
Scan button.
Step 2. Soon, the software will find more and more data and display the data in the scan
results.
Step 3. You can use the Filter feature to quickly locate some specific file types in the results.
Select the target files and click the Recover button.
 Now that your external hard drive not working or showing up error is fixed with no data loss
issue. If you need to ensure that your Seagate external hard drive or storage device is 100%
secure for storing data, you may follow Part 3 to format failed hard drive to NTFS (reusable)
again.

Part 3. Format Seagate external hard drive to NTFS

(reusable) again

The most straightforward way to guarantee your storage device such as Seagate external hard
drive 100% secure and safe to store new data is to format it into NTFS, FAT32 etc (reusable)
again. Here are the steps to format hard drive:

 Go to Disk Management tool > Right-click Seagate external hard drive > Select Format
volume to format the whole disk;
 Set File System to NTFS/FAT32 and rename the Seagate hard drive with a new path letter
and click OK.
 You can set the file system of your Seagate external hard drive and format it into NTFS or
FAT32 etc (reusable) again then.

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