I think this is what I had been thinking of doing. Keep in mind that this may not work due to various reasons and will void the warranty." "- Some users take the drive out of the enclosure in similar cases, in order to attach the drive internally. I think I'll try some of your suggestions. I'm not exactly sure what the cable is called but for some reason I think it's called a SATA cable.
What kind of cable are you talking about? Keep in mind that this may not work due to various reasons and will void the warranty. Some users take the drive out of the enclosure in similar cases, in order to attach the drive internally. You will rule out a possible connection/driver related issue. You can even attach it to another computer. Attach the drive with another cable to a different port. I believe your safest bet for recovering the data would be to contact a data recovery company.Īpart from that, you can try a couple of things: Unfortunately, these weird sounds could indicate that there's something physically wrong with your drive. If I got the kind of cable that plugs into an external hard drive could I just connect the drive to my computer using that and get the information off of my external hard drive that way? What should I do? My goal is to get my computer to recognize the external hard drive and, if that doesn't work, to save the data on it somehow. Today I noticed that my external hard drive was making some squeaky sounds, but only very rarely and I only noticed it doing this today. I opened up Disk Management but my external hard drive doesn't appear there at all. I assume this message refers to my external hard drive that's not working.Īnother message I've gotten is this one: "One of the USB devices attached to your computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it". I opened up Device Manager and, after expanding "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" I see "Unknown USB Device (Set Address Failed)". My external hard drive's light lights up and I can hear that it's on. My 3 terabyte Seagate Backup Plus external hard drive is no longer working properly.
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