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I was using it at school first and my computer froze so I shut down the computer and restarted without safely removing the hard drive, at first the PC wouldnt reboot because I had it still plugged in, after unplugging it and the PC loaded up, it did not recognize the hard drive anymore.

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I have tried it on several PCs including the one at home all using Windows 7 and none of them recognize it.

I tried all USB ports on my PC and none of them work, the light on the hard drive is ON so I know there is no connectivity issue.

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I tried several freetrial softwares even the ones by Seagate and none of them recognized the drive so I cannot use their tools for recovering files or detecting the hard drive.

When I check the Device Manager, it does not show under USB controllers but it DOES show under Disk Drives.

In my quick launch, the drive is recognized there and gives me the option to Eject it but it doesnt actually Eject it when I click on it, it either stop responding or does nothing.

EDIT: After a really long time, the Eject message says the device is already in use which is probably why it doesnt Safely eject.

The problem was a mechanical issue, something that apparently malfunctioned inside the drive.

They didnt so much as fix the Drive, more so than fixed it enough to recover.

To be short, if its a mechanical issue that one PC repair shop pointed out (Geek Squad only does recovery not repair) the data cannot be recovered without repairing it, and most recovery places dont do repairs.

Find a place that can do repairs, they will be able to repair and recover the data to another USB or Hard Drive.

So I suggest going to a PC repair place, have them take a look at it, the diagnosis was free.

If its a recovery issue, you may find ways to fix it online or a Geek Squad (mine was in a Future Shop) if not, then it could be a repair issue.

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