Seagate Portable Hard Drive not detectable, light is on and beeps when plugged in. HELP!

[magsters.w]

Hey! So I’ve got a Seagate Slim Backup Portable Hard Drive that stopped being detected on my MacAir. The light is on when plugged in, and it beeps a couple times but then nothing happens!

Doesn’t show up on Disk Utilities, nor does it show up on the Paragon Drivers. Also bought a new cable thinking it might be that but still nothing. Tried plugging it into a PC, also only shows up in Devices and Printers. Just seems like nothing is able to detect it, although when I go into System Information on my Mac, it does show up under ‘USB’ but doesn’t display all the information as it should.

Have absolutely no idea what else to do, as I feel like I’ve done every possible thing except pay $$$ for data recovery (hoping it doesn’t resort to that). Anyone have any tips?

 

[fredfinks]

Assuming theres not some fix, you should be able to retrieve the data by carefully ripping the disk out and connecting it to a PC's sata port.
Its usually the usb controllers that fail on portable drives, rather than the disk itself.