Seagate 1TB Ext. Hardrive. Plugged in wrong power Supply, ( AC )

[Quinnjin]

Hi, just to add to the millions of similar threads, any help greatly appreciated. I have recordings of my grandad on personal music projects on this drive, not sure what my chances are...

It's a "Seagate barracuda 7200.12 1TB"

S/N 5VP500PS
ST31000528AS
P/N: 9SL154 - 515
Firmware: CC44

Wondering what first step would be to recover Data...?

If even possible?

Yours sincerely,

Quinn

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome to the community, Quinn!

Unfortunately, it seems like you have some pretty essential data stored on your external drive. The best thing to do is to contact a professional data recovery company and let them handle this. The wrong power supply potentially could have fried the HDD, so I don't think there's much you can do by yourself.
I'd strongly recommend you to contact the external HDD manufacturer's technical support and ask them for assistance with this. They could even refer to a company that can help you with retrieving your files.

Good luck! Hope I was helpful!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[BadAsAl]

External drives are just enclosures around a normal SATA or IDE hard drive. Take the drive out of the enclosure, get a new enclosure for less than $20 from your local computer store, put the drive in there and see if the computer can read it. Quick and cheap way to figure out if the enclosure or drive is bad.