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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 11:50:43 No.1503186 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1503199 >>1503201 >>1503206 >>1503211 >>1503280

>2TB seagate external has been clicking forever now
>Finally go get a new external to back up stuff before this one finally croaks
>Plug both in and my ailing seagate just fucking dies
>whenever plugged in now the light will stay on for a while and then just fade out
Just fucking end me.

Have i gotten my just desserts or is there any good solutions to salvaging the stuff on there? Any help would be appreciated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 12:58:50 No.1503195 Report

Quoted By: >>1503236

I remember doing this shit all the time when I was like 20-30 and still dumb as fuck.

Don't worry man, this is life teaching you a lesson. People usually are too stupid to learn a lesson unless it hits them hard as FUCK. If this never happened you wouldn't give a flying fuck about backups AM I RIGHT?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 13:29:29 No.1503199 Report

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>>1503186
>any good solutions to salvaging the stuff on there?
I don't think there's anything you can do on your own. There are places that can restore data off dead hard drives, but I think they can be expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 13:58:40 No.1503201 Report

Quoted By: >>1503204

>>1503186
aren't external SSDs a thing now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 14:13:12 No.1503204 Report

Quoted By: >>1503236

>>1503201
Their price per storage capacity is also a thing

>inb4 well OP is paying the price for going with unreliable and slow mechanical hdd's are his own fault then

I get that. I'm just saying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 14:16:15 No.1503205 Report

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The lesson isn't get a new hard drive if it seems like your old one is going to die.
The lesson is if you don't have redundancy you don't have a backup.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 15:07:39 No.1503206 Report

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>>1503186
This might sound stupid but it's worth a try. Plug it and unplug it repeatedly from the drive side of the cable, keeping the disk at different angles each time. If it's a hardware failure you might find a spot where it can still start up long enough to recover the data. This has allowed me to restore plenty of old drives that seemed to be already dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 15:46:39 No.1503211 Report

Quoted By: >>1503215 >>1503225

>>1503186
>>whenever plugged in now the light will stay on for a while and then just fade out
Great, sounds like the external HDD adapter is fucked. This is fixable for a couple bucks, buy this
https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-External-Enclosure-Support-Tool-Free/dp/B01LY97QE8
Then shuck your Seagate drive, should go something like
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3510TQlzD8I
Slap your bare HDD in your new adapter. Try to use the USB cable from Seagate, it's higher quality than the chinese junk

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 16:18:14 No.1503215 Report

Quoted By: >>1503220

>>1503211
he also said "It's been clicking forever".

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 18:02:39 No.1503220 Report

Quoted By: >>1503221

>>1503215
I didn't say it would fix that. But but the USB adapters can and do fail, and are easily replaced. That sentence he wrote is a description of a USB board failure.
*If* I'm wrong, what harm did I cause him? I cost him $8

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 18:13:08 No.1503221 Report

Quoted By: >>1503225 >>1503231 >>1503236

>>1503220
>I didn't say it would fix that. But but the USB adapters can and do fail, and are easily replaced

I've messed with a few externals and as far as I can tell the most common symptom for a bad adapter is 1. data is accidentally formatted/lost and 2. can't see the drive period/no power

I've never ran into an issue where the "click of death" happened at the same time as a bad adapter. Not to say that OP could have literally left this click to go on for years until the bad adapter happened.

>what harm did I cause him? I cost him $8

An immature take from where I stand. I'm older and the damage done isn't the $8 coming from OP. It's the damage of that one more "un-needed purchase" could have helped by not existing at all.

I'm 43 so my bad if I sound like a grandpa or some shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 18:34:35 No.1503225 Report

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>>1503211
Looks interesting. I might give it a try. Thanks.
>>1503221
I'm sorry for disappointing (you).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 19:02:44 No.1503231 Report

Quoted By: >>1503233 >>1503244

>>1503221
>I'm 43
Ok, what the fuck does that have to do with anything? Do you have some delusion that you being older makes you wiser than everyone else or something? Fuck off, I know (You) are not the oldest poster in this thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 19:06:56 No.1503233 Report

Quoted By: >>1503236

>>1503231
I'm seriously not sure if you want me to respond to this post of fuck off.

I'm going to fuck off which seems healthier for you. Good luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 19:16:25 No.1503236 Report

Quoted By: >>1503237 >>1503244

>>1503233
>>1503221
>>1503204
>>1503195
Yes, please fuck off reddit spacing faggot. You've offered nothing to this thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 19:17:05 No.1503237 Report

Quoted By:

>>1503236
yes sir

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 19:47:37 No.1503244 Report

Quoted By:

>>1503231
>>1503236
lol calm down old man

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 23:50:48 No.1503280 Report

Quoted By: >>1503349

>>1503186
If you are still reading here, take in this
>the "externals" are just "internals" with a case or adapter
so if you disassemble the case with care, you'll end with a single hard disk (either 2.5/3.5 inches).
So you can hook up in any computer with a sata interface.
Good luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 05:11:24 No.1503349 Report

Quoted By: >>1503466

>>1503280
I'm still popping in between sleeping and having to go to work so thanks. It looks like i'll be disassembling it in some fashion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 20:47:05 No.1503466 Report

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>>1503349
the clickings does have to mean
unreadable at all, it perhaps lets you
backup your data.
Good luck, take care.
Don't drive sleeping.

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