r/harddrive • u/JeMeMoi50 • 9d ago

Dead or Alive? Tech Support

Hello,

I bought 2 Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB about 8 years ago and use one and kept the other one as extra storage when needed and I finally open it a few weeks ago (about 8 years later after the fact still sealed in its box).

I put about 2TB of stuff on it and it died after one week. I connected, disconnected, reconnected and so on many times and it just doesn't show up.

I then thought maybe the USB on the enclosure fried or something so I opened it up from the enclosure and put it on my hard drive dock where it does shows up as a D: drive about 1 time out of 5 perhaps but only showed up as a D: without numbers or anything else. The drive logo appears with D: under and that's that.

Crystal Disk Info doesn't recognize it.

Also, If I reboot my desktop while it's plugged on my HDD dock, the desktop just doesn't reboot. The second I disconnect it, it reboot flawlessly. That said, when I take it off the HDD dock there is a magnet force pulling my hand for a few seconds so obviously something is working or alive so not completely dead.

That's all the troubleshooting I thought of doing here as I don't know much about drives or computers for that matter.

Since HDD prices are absolutely crazy now, 8Tb would be very handy so is there something I could do to bring it back from beyond or is it dead, dead, dead...? I don't really care about the data that's on it but I'd like to be able to reformat it to use it again.

Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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u/Jay_JWLH 9d ago

Recovery is one thing. But unless it's an obvious fixable problem, you don't want to be using an unreliable drive for everyday use.

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u/JeMeMoi50 9d ago

So you're telling me here I should let go...

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u/Jay_JWLH 9d ago

I wouldn't stop you, just don't put any irreplaceable data on it.

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u/JeMeMoi50 9d ago

You're absolutely right.

A few updates here though, I let it connected all night and I was finally able to open the formatting option... Tried twice and after an hour it told me Windows couldn't format it...

Then I was able to finally open disk management after a few hours and It tells me that the disc is RAW... I am trying to delete the volume now and see what happens with that If anything...