Rappelz

Hi there, thats hard i also lost 3 drives this way and have some aknoledgment in it. You sayed it external....i think it was an GPT Partition right from full device? First at all HDDScan and so sh---- Utilitys only harm your Equipment don´t use them and ist that what other user sayed...they just read out the smart Infos----- real cool way but the smart function ist to prevent hd crashes harms and so on.....so if you HD harmed they just speak the same s*** what bevor it you the smart function sayed real useless.... If you like to backup most of your datas its important you make it that way the finder sayed....got some Tools to make one to one bit to bit copys from your damaged drive. REAL IMPORTANT DONT MAKE CHKDSK OR ANY STUPID TOOLS FROM YOUR OS THIS WILL HARM YOUR DRIVE HARDER AND ARE ALSO USELESS!!! I PREFER AFTER 1:1 BACKUP TAKE YOUR DISK AND GOTO SEAGATE WEBPAGE TO MAKE A CHANGE TO ANOTHER IF YOU ALREADY HAVE WARRANTY!! You will recieve then a Repaired same Model like you was have 6 Months new Warranty and in most Times better as your sended. In some Times the Scenarios its this way for data lost if you has a GPT Partioned Drive external pluged. May a install as internal drive can in 5% fix the harms.....also be Aware from MS Updates over night, because OS checks up the File and HD intergrity on booting up, if the are sad OS Begins automatically a chkdsk from the deserved drive and voila your drive are 1. at next morning on chkdsk maybe done 10-20% "thats the Price from big drives" 2 more harmed btw some Tools like Testdisk are real helpie in some manners get it by Google them... so at last i wish you good look with your difficulty Job if you have some questions feel free to pm me AT last hint, if you buy again a drive so big pay a bit more for a better Part and never ever buy seagate, they swapped to real bad Quality again and the time you now has to recover your datas stand in no way the more Euros you payed for a better Part?