leachim Posted October 10, 2025 Posted October 10, 2025 Got a 1Tb Seagate 3.5" plugged into a caddy First of all would not spin up Took off the plate and moved the read/write head, then it spun up Disk Management says it is an invalid disk - see pic Need to get data off ! Any advice welcome !
3s-gtech Posted October 10, 2025 Posted October 10, 2025 Caddy may not be giving it enough power. Opening it up was exceptionally brave, but may have condemned it! Can you plug it in internally and try?
dmj Posted October 11, 2025 Posted October 11, 2025 Also try with another O/S (usb boot linux for example). If it gets recognised then take a block level image ASAP and mount that on loopback. If you have an identical HDD, you could try swapping the platters from the broken one into the working HDD. clean room, blah blah YMMV 1
leachim Posted October 11, 2025 Author Posted October 11, 2025 12 hours ago, 3s-gtech said: Caddy may not be giving it enough power. Opening it up was exceptionally brave, but may have condemned it! Can you plug it in internally and try? Caddy is OK Tried it internally and said no disk found !
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