Hi
I have had some trouble with my Seagate Backup plus slim 2TB external harddrive.
I am running Windows 7 on a Lenovo laptop.
While trying to transfer a big pile of data on to it, it messed up somehow and completely lost all data stored on it.
I tried to run different kinds of scans on it but always got stuck on a certain sector. (SeaTools failed it, testdisk wouldnt complete and so on)
I tried chkdsk with "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" option enabled, and it finally seemed to complete the scan, and now SeaTools also passed its tests.
It felt like the drive was still acting a little odd, so I wanted to reformat the drive.
I pressed the restore device defaults in the format window, unchecked the quick format option, and let it to work overnight. Upon waking up, I see that windows has decided to update and restart the pc.
Now the disk is not recognized in Disk Management, it doesn't show up at all, and in Device Manager I get the "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" error. I can't find any drivers on seagates website to try and install, and don't now how else to attack this problem.
Hope someone can help me.
I have had some trouble with my Seagate Backup plus slim 2TB external harddrive.
I am running Windows 7 on a Lenovo laptop.
While trying to transfer a big pile of data on to it, it messed up somehow and completely lost all data stored on it.
I tried to run different kinds of scans on it but always got stuck on a certain sector. (SeaTools failed it, testdisk wouldnt complete and so on)
I tried chkdsk with "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" option enabled, and it finally seemed to complete the scan, and now SeaTools also passed its tests.
It felt like the drive was still acting a little odd, so I wanted to reformat the drive.
I pressed the restore device defaults in the format window, unchecked the quick format option, and let it to work overnight. Upon waking up, I see that windows has decided to update and restart the pc.
Now the disk is not recognized in Disk Management, it doesn't show up at all, and in Device Manager I get the "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" error. I can't find any drivers on seagates website to try and install, and don't now how else to attack this problem.
Hope someone can help me.