External Hard Drive Help

deji5577 · 11-11-2007, 06:57 PM

Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I am not a computer genious but I am in a strange situation. I purchased a 160 gig Seagate external hard drive about a year ago to store some files.

The drive was working fine until about a week ago. Every time I press the power button, the drive does not turn on at all. The cord has an adaptor with a green light that deems every time I press the power button to start the hard drive.

Have I lost all the data on the drive or is there any way I can get the data onto another external hard drive? I called Seagate and they told me $1,700 to get the data which I can't afford to pay. Any response or help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

**Snoopdogie187** · 11-11-2007, 08:52 PM

This depends. If they used a normal hard drive you can just take it out, and as long as that is still good, you can just get another case and put it in there.

It also sounds like a power problem where the adaptor can not put out engough power to turn it on. It may just be the adaptor that went bad or something in the case that is like shorting it out.

11-11-2007, 06:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
deji5577 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1 OS: WINXP	External Hard Drive Help Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I am not a computer genious but I am in a strange situation. I purchased a 160 gig Seagate external hard drive about a year ago to store some files. The drive was working fine until about a week ago. Every time I press the power button, the drive does not turn on at all. The cord has an adaptor with a green light that deems every time I press the power button to start the hard drive. Have I lost all the data on the drive or is there any way I can get the data onto another external hard drive? I called Seagate and they told me $1,700 to get the data which I can't afford to pay. Any response or help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

11-11-2007, 08:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
Snoopdogie187 Oh! What shall I be? Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 2,537 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1, mom: XP Pro SP2 My System	Re: External Hard Drive Help This depends. If they used a normal hard drive you can just take it out, and as long as that is still good, you can just get another case and put it in there. It also sounds like a power problem where the adaptor can not put out engough power to turn it on. It may just be the adaptor that went bad or something in the case that is like shorting it out. __________________ Infected computer? click here Has TSF Helped You? Posting System Specifications Please Donate to TSF