snake02

I've checked both sites with very minimal information. It seems when looking around the internet that I am not the only one that has had this same problem with this particular drive crapping out after awhile in the same fashion. But no one mentions if they ever get it fixed or follows up on it after people leave recover tips or the chkdsk notes etc. so I'm not really sure. I did the chkdsk run earlier but not the /f /r etc bc windows was not recognizing the drive so I couldn't specifically check that one. I have important college stuff on research on there I'd hate to lose, and some would be really hard to duplicate. (that WAS my backup, lol, so dont even say it), and I can't afford one of those crazy 800-1500 recovery firms.

Hello there. I'm new to all this so bare with me. I've only had this external hard drive for a couple of years, and I am not so tech savvy so I'll try to as descriptive and detailed as possible. The portable hard drive just out of the blue stopped working. Never dropped no loud odd noises Brand: Verbatim-Seagate 500gb usb. I took the device apart and hooked it up direct to the tower itself. That was the only way the computer was able to even recognize it at all. And that was just some of these recovery programs and bios. I've ran chkdsk, bios says theres 0 memory on the device (at least bios recognized it).I've tried getting the latest drivers, that didn't help.. I'm at a loss here as to what to do now. I even attempted to format the thing, but it wouldn't even let me do that. It fails every time. Thinking I would just retrieve the information that was on it after. I could at least regain access to the drive again. But that didn't work either or that was my thought process. Is the drive completely just junk or is there a function I'm missing in the program here? Because the drive isn't showing up or recovering anything in the program that I see..?