[SOLVED] Ext hdd not working at all

[mrinalmaurya1]

my ext hdd stopped working,
it shows like localdisk g:
i tried fixing with chkdsk, many softwares, disk managment
but the problem is when my ext hdd is plugged in, chkdsk, various softwares, disk managment stopped working
i tried to format it also but does'nt work either.
is my drive dead? what should i do?
help!!!

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

When an HDD won't format (but other drives will) it usually means that the drive has failed. For confirmation you can test it with diagnostic software such as Seagate SeaTools for Windows:

SeaTools | Support Seagate US

SeaTools – Schnelldiagnose-Tool zur Überprüfung des Zustands Ihrer Festplatte

www.seagate.com

It can be used to test any brand of HDD.

 

[popatim]

It is dead.
It could be the powersupply, the enclosure, or the HDD inside.
If it is out of warrantly then you can remove the drive inside and often they are just a regular sata drive which you can connect it to a pc with sata & power cables. If it is still dead, then it's the drive.

 

[Encryption+]

Yeah, sounds like it's dead. Hopefully it's recoverable like popatim mentioned above. Good luck