Internal HDD stops responding?

Question

Hello Group,

I had a Seagate 1TB Internal HDD bought around 3 years, it was working fine though but suddenly from a months, it was unresponsive for a while as i was hearing some sound from it, but the HDD was working fine. Now from a week, even it connected, its stop responding when i tried opening the drive from My computer. I surfed all the net and non of the solutions worked for me. Please help to get out of this problem. I have more than 15Gb of Personal stuff, ~50Gb of Project Files, more than 200Gb of Softwares and ~150Gb of Project related files. I want this really back, Please help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Thanks for replying, i have tried in another computer as the drive can be seen in my computer, but the capacity bar can't be seen up (as in win 7), when i clicked it, it starts reading but explorer will stop responds. Anyhow if there is a option by connecting the device as external using USB and opening the same in Linux Ubuntu Live to try whether the HDD works out there... And there is no any instance of giving the HDD to service centre as it lacks in privacy and security. I have to do it by myself. Any other suggestions rather using recover tools, i just want to open the drive and backup all required stuff :/

Answer 2

so you windows actually see the drive? to confirm its actually the drive try it in another computer if you have one. take it to a friends if not. or open computer and move the drive onto another cable, the secondary one.

I have a seagate that freezes one it reaches a certain temperature. I had maybe 3 min each time i started it to get stuff off. Took me a long time to copy every thing from it as it needed to cool right down before it would start

Answer 3

Unfortunately you should have transferred all your data when you noticed the problems. You might be able to find a shop that can recover the data for you, but that is more than likely your only option.