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How to recover lost data from a dead Seagate external hard drive?

Updated on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

iBoysoft author Vain Rowe

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Summary: This is a tutorial exploring how to recover lost data from a dead, damaged, or corrupted Seagate external hard drive, and how to recover lost data from a Seagate external hard disk not detected on Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP and Windows Server 2019/2016/2012/2008/2003. iBoysoft Data Recovery Software helps a lot in the data recovery process!

Recover lost data from dead Seagate external hard drive

Being inexpensive and portable, the Seagate hard drive is always used to back up essential files and data. However, some people have reported that the Seagate hard drive gets corrupted, damaged, or dead, denying them access to priceless data. That's really awful!

Feel no worry, however! This post is gonna walk you through how to recover files from a corrupted, damaged, broken, or failing Seagate hard drive with proven solutions! You just keep reading and following this post to grab your files back!

how to recover data from dead Seagate external hard drive

How to recover lost data from a dead Seagate external hard drive? (Professional)

We highly suggest you choose the professional method -- iBoysoft Data Recovery Software to proceed with this data recovery mission. It has a higher success rate among all solutions even if the Seagate hard drive is dead, damaged, or failing! On top of that, this way is quite easy to operate though you're a green hand to data recovery.

iBoysoft Data Recovery Software is known for its advanced disk scanning skills and data recovery algorithms. It is capable of recovering deleted or lost data from an unreadable, inaccessible, formatted, corrupted, dead, damaged, or even failing external or internal hard drive on your Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, and 2003 machine.

This utility supports any sort of file format data recovery, including deleted or lost Word documents, Excel files, Presentation files, PDF files, pictures, videos, audio, emails, notes, etc. from USB hard drives, SD cards, memory cards, pen drives, digital camera, GoPros, and drones' storage devices.

As a professional data recovery assistant, it is able to fix a RAW drive and then access files from it after turning it into a functional device, moreover, it can recover deleted or lost partitions on your PC with ease!

 Note: If you cannot tell whether your hard drive is physically damaged or logically damaged, try data recovery by using the professional data recovery software first. If you fail with this mission, turn to local repair or data recovery technicians for help.

How to recover deleted or lost data from a dead Seagate external hard drive:

Step 1: Free download and install iBoysoft Data Recovery Software on your computer.

Step 2: Firmly connect the dead Seagate external hard drive to your computer.

Step 3: Choose the Data Recovery module from the main window.

how to recover files from a dead Seagate external hard drive

Step 4: Select the targeted hard drive and click Next to begin the disk scanning.

how to recover files from a dead Seagate external hard drive

Step 5: Once the disk scanning finishes, you can see a list of found files. Select the found file and right-click it to choose Preview to check it before the data recovery.

how to recover files from a dead Seagate external hard drive

Step 6: When you finish the check, select the files you want and click Recover to bring them back. Please do save the files to a safe location and do a full backup in case anything goes wrong in the future.

How to correctly use a Seagate hard drive on a computer?

Normally, if you find your Seagate external hard drive responds slowly and produces a "scraping noise" when you connect it to your PC, you'd better back up critical data ASAP for the strange sound is a sign of drive falling.

Then what causes results into this falling? Well, Let's tell you, the hard drive being long-time used, overheating, power surge, accidental damage, water/dust/oil damage, etc. are the fatal culprits in reducing it to failure. Therefore, always using the hard drive in a safe and clean environment is the best way to prolong its life span.

Apart from that, it's a nice habit to make a second backup of the files stored on the hard drive to lower the incidence of data loss. Anyway, we all know that there are two kinds of hard drives in the world, the one that is already falling and the other one that is going to fall. 

If, however, you unluckily suffer from data loss on the Seagate hard drive, please stop any writing actions to it and perform the data recovery mission ASAP. Or, you might write files to it unintentionally, which wipes the lost file traces. Always remember that the shorter the time passes, the higher the data recovery success rate is.

Conclusion

Seagate external hard drive wins a great part of the external storage market for it being fast in read/write speed and durable to use. If you have no idea about choosing a hard drive for file storage, I'd like to give Seagate hard drive a recommendation. 

If you run into data loss on a Seagate hard drive, I'd like to give iBoysoft Data Recovery Software a recommendation for it's always ready to recover deleted or lost files from a corrupted, formatted, inaccessible, unreadable, failing, dead, or damaged drive as expected!