I got the hard drive and when I plugged it in I heard it spinning and clicking but it won't work! In the past I tried the Acer laptop and it detected and booted to unsupported windows which was just given by my friend and now I formatted it and a fail! now I plugged it to the enclosure and now it won't open the files I tried to listen to see what was wrong and everything was fine so I used seatools from Seagate and it detected but more damage has happened and now it won't detect and I don't want to pay for recovery serivce to fix the drive and sending them away is there a solution? Edited with Grammarly.
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As myself and SuperSoph_WD have said, there really is not much you can do at this point. Certain third party tools like Recuva or MiniTool Partition Wizard could help, but there are a few catches.
- The drive could be unreadable in its current state, and as such, you would likely be wasting your time trying.
- SuperSoph_WD said it; you will likely do more damage to the device and make it harder, if not impossible, for a professional service to assist you.
- You claim to have formatted the drive, meaning all of your files are gone. Formatting erases the contents of a drive. Therefore, there are no files for your to recover, leading to that waste of time I mentioned in the first point.
The long and short of it is, there is not really another option other than to send the drive to a professional to see if they can recover files from it. Take this as a hard lesson; always back up your data.
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