Well it seems if i leave my external HDD connected to my laptop for about 20-30 minutes or so, the blinking red LED eventually stops blinking but remains on indefinitely, just like the green LED indicating power is on.
But if i turn off then turn it back on again, the red LED starts blinking all over again. What exactly could be wrong here, is the external casing or the HDD itself.
I also found out my HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB.
Thanks again.
My external hard disk drive is a 200GB Seagate drive. I use USB 2.0 to connect it to my laptop and its being powered by an AC adpator.
I use it mainly to store my movie collections and now there's only about 16GB left in the drive, which means i have a lot of stuff in there.
So today while i was playing one of my movies on WMP, halfway through it suddenly stops and says that there's an error reading the file from my external drive. So i thought that my drive was stuck which it does from time to time. So i turned off the power and turned it back on again, only this time it doesnt work as it supposed to do.
First off, there's 2 LEDs on my external drive, a green one for power and a red one i assume is for data or something. Normally the green LED stays on but the red one only flashes when im reading or moving data into the drive. Now the green one stays on indicating power, but the red one keeps blinking NON STOP. At the same time there's a clicking sort of noise coming from my external drive which wasnt there before this incident.
My laptop wont recognize the external drive in "My Computer" anymore. I've tried it on my sister's PC and it wont read it there also.
So can anyone help me to at least recover the data on my external drive cause its very priceless to me.
Thanks

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