My External Hard Drive Crashed | How to Troubleshoot

How to Troubleshoot External Hard Drive
Here are some tips on how to troubleshoot if your external hard drive crashed.
1st - Make sure that you test it on both Mac and Windows operating system. Two tools to use are disk utility (Mac) and disk management (Windows).
2nd - Listen to any consistent buzzing or clicking. Its possible that the drive died. Also try another cable. I had another drive where the cable stopped working.
3rd - Remove hard drive from enclosure and set it on a hard drive dock or connection to a pc. Its possible that the enclosure just died and you can still retrieve your data.
4th - Replace the hard drive with a larger drive with the same working enclosure. (if you external drive died like mine did)
5th - Never keep all of your data on one drive. Thankfully I didn't but I have experienced users that keep all of their data mixed between drives.
Overall be safe with your data, if possible put a password on it, and never say your data in one place. Many providers like Googles G drive, Apple's iCloud and Microsoft OneDrive provide good options to save your data. Some are free others you pay monthly.
There are ways to get recovery data from an external drive and some can be expensive. I usually don't recommend them but if its super important I would search online for some options.
Instead of throwing this away you can replace the hard drive instead of buying a new one for an estimate of $159. A small 2TB drive ranges for $54 on amazon. Don't throw it away if the enclosure still works.
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch - Frustration Free Packaging (ST2000DM008)
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[@TheWeeblyGeebies]

So Power consumption is important to not having it crash. what is the name of that power brick you used to plug the drive into the pc?

[@infotechyeti]

None of these use a power brick. I personally have one that uses a power brick that still works well because it rarely moves my desk. Mobile external drive are prone to crashing over stationary ones.

[@thesillyreaper1316]

what does it mean when my file manager crashes when trying to access file on a drive

[@infotechyeti]

Probably hard drive crashed or corrupt file.

[@tadashi2588]

hey i have the same problem wondering if you fixed this?

[@thesillyreaper1316]

@@tadashi2588 no i gave up

[@ZarKiiFreeman]

Right now i'm having an issue where my hard drive crashes when information is read from it, i read the cable's the issue so i'mma get a replacement one

[@infotechyeti]

I had a similar with with another hard drive and it still works. Def try that as well.

[@ZarKiiFreeman]

@@infotechyeti Thanks for the confirmation :) It's a Seagate hard drive so it should still be good, i bought it a month ago lol...

[@infotechyeti]

@@ZarKiiFreeman check with the vendor to see if they can send you one but test it with a spare one u have to make sure. Hope it all works

[@Tota1Everything]

Mine fell of my desk and now it wont work

[@infotechyeti]

Sorry to hear but I have experienced that as well. Always recommend a backup but the backup could die as well. Have mutplie options of backup drives or services like cloud storage

[@Novafittt]

You talk way too much before you get to business man. Thanks for the video though

[@infotechyeti]

Thanks for the feedback. One of my first videos created.