Hard Drive isn't showing up

[Ramer487]

I have a Seagate 1TB external Hard Drive that just stopped showing up. The hard drive is still fairly new I plugged it in and I got the device connected notification but nothing shows up in my computer. I went to device manager and all i'm getting is "disk device" that's not initialized.

I really hope the hard drive is still working b/c I had everything on it. If anybody can help me i'd really appreciate it.

 

[RolandJS]

No current, recent, backups, correct? Going forward, after this situation has been resolved one way or another, please begin and continue making backup images of your OS and Data partitions onto reliable external media.

Meanwhile, you have an uphill climb. You will have to prepare a Puppy Linux usb stick or dvd and hopefully its file manager can see this HD in this computer or in another computer. **Do not use anything that will write to this HD if it does finally work.** If it does not work, find a local data recovery specialist and follow his/her advice.