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Question

HDD Drive - Seagate Barracuda - Damage - Data Recovery

Sep 7, 2017 1:48AM PDT

My HDD Seagate Barracuda 1 TB drive stopped working, probably due to overheating damage. Is there any way to recover data from it? Would I need an adaptor? If yes, which one?

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completely dead?
Sep 7, 2017 4:09AM PDT

If so, then you'd only recover the data by getting another drive exactly the same, and either change the circuit board to the old drive if that's the problem, or if that fails to work, move the platters into the new one. Otherwise it's send off to an expensive drive/data recovery service.

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Disk
Sep 7, 2017 4:33AM PDT

If the disk has failed then there is nothing your going to do about it.
You can try putting it in an enclosure and connecting via usb for a test.
Otherwise you have a chat with these folks.
https://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/

After you find out the cost you might ask yourself.....why don't I have a backup.

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There are well meaning folk that may tell you to change
Sep 7, 2017 5:30AM PDT

There are well meaning folk that may tell you to change boards but I've never seen that work once drives went over a few hundred megabytes.

Drivesavers has the technical background, cleanrooms and access to a lot of ways to bring the drive back for one last retrieval. Isn't cheap compared to backups.