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Message: <blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1905295" data-attributes="member: 67742">If you have Seagate externals that "failed" (question is how) and you tried a different able and tried Disk Utilities and other non-intrusive reovery methods, as a last resort I would rack the enclosure open, remove the internal SATA drive and try the drive in a new enclosure or use a SATA to USB adapter.I had three externals "fail"on me in the last few years - turned out that with two of them yje SATA-to-USB 3.0 bridge in the enclosure failed and with the third one the USB 3.0 connetor was flakey.For none of them the failure was the actual hard drive itself.Maybe the seller in Bangkok will do that for you to verify that it really is the drive that failed.</blockquote>