Seagate troubleshooting tools

Step 7: Shut down your computer and disconnect the Seagate external hard drive. Wait for a while, reboot the computer, plug the drive into a different port again, and you should see that Windows is installing the device drivers. After fixing the Seagate external hard drive which fails to respond or react, you shall now check whether you can access your data in the drive or not.

It's dependable, powerful yet easy-to-use hard drive data recovery software that owns a high reputation in the world. It comes in handy when you cannot open the Seagate external hard drive that shows as unallocated, RAW, or unknown. Now, it's your turn to run the software for a full Seagate hard drive data recovery. As soon as the scan process starts, the software will find more and more lost data on the selected drive and display the data in the scan results.

A double-click on a file lets you preview its content. If the preview is with no problem, just select the target files and click Recover. To avoid data overwriting, we suggest you save the recovered data to the other drive instead of the original Seagate drive.

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It comes with a selection of advanced features, including partition recovery, formatted drive restoration, and corrupted file repair. Screen Recorder. Yes No. Note: Toolkit will discontinue support for Windows 7, 8, and 8. For more information, see this Knowledge Base article. See your product manual for which Toolkit activities are supported by your drive.

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Another common area is with the system BIOS setup. Be sure to double check if these items are correct. Occasionally, a working drive will not be detected by the software. Disk drives attach to the computer through a section of circuitry on the motherboard called a controller.

The software is designed to be as up-to-date as possible with known controllers. The drive is not by detectable in this case because of an unknown controller.

Methods for entering the Setup or CMOS Setup vary depending on your computer's make and model, but most methods consist of pressing a key or key sequence during the initial power on boot sequence. Watch the screen closely during boot up for a message like "Press F2 to enter Setup" or something similar to determine which key or key sequence to press for your computer.