I have a Seagate Backup Plus 2TB portable hard drive, and SOMEONE (okay it was me) grabbed the laptop it was plugged into and it fell off the desk. It still lights up, doesn't make any weird clicking or whirring sounds, and still shows up on Disk Utility.
At first I didn't think it was a big deal as it seemed fine when first I plugged it back in - main partition was still displaying all the usual files in Finder. However, second partition wasn't showing up so I opened Disk Utility. Trying to read the second partition with Disk Utility crashed the latter, and then shortly after, Finder crashed while trying to read the main partition.
Now neither partition shows up in Finder, though both show up in Disk Utility. I tried to "verify disk" and it told me both partitions needed to be repaired; I ran the repair but it said neither could be repaired and needed to be reformatted.
Is there any chance of recovering this data without spending any money? I downloaded Seagate Data Recovery but got a warning not to use it in cases of mechanical failure. What about recovering a list of files stored on there? Could this still be an okay drive if reformatted? I'm super poor and can't afford a new drive in the foreseeable future due to spending money on a new SSD for my 2009 MacBook recently (at least I'm confident that I won't need my backup any time soon).
The data consisted mainly of two things, 1) a backup of my Mac's hard drive EDIT: SSD and 2) about 400 GB of movies and TV. There was also a folder called "backup" on there but I'm not sure what I put in there or if I deleted it from the original source, hence why it would be handy to at least have a list of files.
Thanks in advance for any wisdom and insight you might be able to share!
Extra details:
- Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0, about 1.5 years old
- 2 partitions, main partition NTFS, second partition Mac OS Extended Journaled
- Using this drive mainly with a MacBook Pro OS 10.6.8 and occasionally a desktop running Windows XP (home) or a MacMini OSX (work), partitioned/formatted using one of the PCs at work running Windows Vista
At first I didn't think it was a big deal as it seemed fine when first I plugged it back in - main partition was still displaying all the usual files in Finder. However, second partition wasn't showing up so I opened Disk Utility. Trying to read the second partition with Disk Utility crashed the latter, and then shortly after, Finder crashed while trying to read the main partition.
Now neither partition shows up in Finder, though both show up in Disk Utility. I tried to "verify disk" and it told me both partitions needed to be repaired; I ran the repair but it said neither could be repaired and needed to be reformatted.
Is there any chance of recovering this data without spending any money? I downloaded Seagate Data Recovery but got a warning not to use it in cases of mechanical failure. What about recovering a list of files stored on there? Could this still be an okay drive if reformatted? I'm super poor and can't afford a new drive in the foreseeable future due to spending money on a new SSD for my 2009 MacBook recently (at least I'm confident that I won't need my backup any time soon).
The data consisted mainly of two things, 1) a backup of my Mac's hard drive EDIT: SSD and 2) about 400 GB of movies and TV. There was also a folder called "backup" on there but I'm not sure what I put in there or if I deleted it from the original source, hence why it would be handy to at least have a list of files.
Thanks in advance for any wisdom and insight you might be able to share!
Extra details:
- Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0, about 1.5 years old
- 2 partitions, main partition NTFS, second partition Mac OS Extended Journaled
- Using this drive mainly with a MacBook Pro OS 10.6.8 and occasionally a desktop running Windows XP (home) or a MacMini OSX (work), partitioned/formatted using one of the PCs at work running Windows Vista
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