The harddrive inside is a 3.5 inch harddrive. How about putting the harddrive inside in a new external enclosure, and see if it works? I suggest that perhaps the external enclosure it's in, is bad. (Seagate bought out Maxtor)īefore you resign yourself to everything is lost on this harddrive, how about trying one more thing? Seagate troubleshooting Error Code 10, states that drive has failed. Then reinstall the PCB on the new harddrive.įor additional questions please post in a Comment. One method would be to buy another harddrive like the one in the Seagate FreeAgent, and use it's PCB so that you can retrieve your information. IF you are referring to the PCB on the Harddrive itself, good luck. This is an example of a 2.5 SATA external enclosure, If your Seagate is like the one in the link above, it has a laptop size Harddrive in it, and it is a SATA unit.Ģ.5 inches across in width.
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If you are referring to the small PCB that the Harddrive connects to, and has the USB cable coming from it, just buy an external enclosure, and install the Harddrive into it. The Printed Circuit Board ON THE Harddrive inside the Seagate FreeAgent, or the small PCB inside the Seagate FreeAgent's external enclosure? (Case) You might have to install a usb 2 or 3 card they are cheap and easy to install you can buy these on Ebay very cheap Just replace the cable of the hard disk, when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable everything should work fine again,Ĭheck the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red-white-green-black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems Sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable If you can see your usb but its not working Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red x