- Jun 2, 2016
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Hello
I am not kidding when I say I know nothing. I have looked all over this place for in-thread advice, [and no one seems to explain what Sata is or how to spot it] and I really don't know what I'm doing, so am slightly more confused than I was at the beginning. So if you decide to take pity on me, please give simple instructions as if to a young and attention-deficit child.
My problem is as follows, I have a Seagate external hard drive which I use very irregularly. (I tend to update it twice a year, and that's about it - and to be brutally honest, I don't NEED the stuff on it, so there are no tears at bedtime over this.) I've had it for a few years, and over time and evidently a lack of careful handling, the data port on my hard drive has not only come loose, but has detached completely.
Thinking I could solve this with some creativity, I opened the black 'shell' of the housing and found the loose connection, which - when I plugged it in and held it down - appeared to work a treat: the power cable was fine, and holding the loose connection in made the thing whirr as normal and the light come on no problem. But when I plugged the USB into my laptop ... nothing. It did make a wee jingle for a moment, before unjingling itself again, but I am not sure what I did right to make it work, and evidently I screwed it up again.
This is obviously very frustrating.
I don't currently have a working PC (or the technical knowhow) to plug it in directly to test and see if it's just my laptop, although I suppose I can try with my work laptop at some stage. Is there a place I can go to get stuff transferred, or do I buy another Seagate power cable and try again? I'm just at a loss.
I am not kidding when I say I know nothing. I have looked all over this place for in-thread advice, [and no one seems to explain what Sata is or how to spot it] and I really don't know what I'm doing, so am slightly more confused than I was at the beginning. So if you decide to take pity on me, please give simple instructions as if to a young and attention-deficit child.
My problem is as follows, I have a Seagate external hard drive which I use very irregularly. (I tend to update it twice a year, and that's about it - and to be brutally honest, I don't NEED the stuff on it, so there are no tears at bedtime over this.) I've had it for a few years, and over time and evidently a lack of careful handling, the data port on my hard drive has not only come loose, but has detached completely.
Thinking I could solve this with some creativity, I opened the black 'shell' of the housing and found the loose connection, which - when I plugged it in and held it down - appeared to work a treat: the power cable was fine, and holding the loose connection in made the thing whirr as normal and the light come on no problem. But when I plugged the USB into my laptop ... nothing. It did make a wee jingle for a moment, before unjingling itself again, but I am not sure what I did right to make it work, and evidently I screwed it up again.
This is obviously very frustrating.
I don't currently have a working PC (or the technical knowhow) to plug it in directly to test and see if it's just my laptop, although I suppose I can try with my work laptop at some stage. Is there a place I can go to get stuff transferred, or do I buy another Seagate power cable and try again? I'm just at a loss.
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