Seagate External Hard Drive Flashing Green Light
Seagate External Hard Drive won’t turn on/ detect?
My Seagate 1 TB hard drive won’t turn on or detect anymore. But there’s more to the story…when I came downstairs this morning, I found that some idiot (probably my fu**ing stupid sister or her friend) had tripped over the power cord for the hard drive, And then plugged my laptops power cable into it instead, thinking it was the right one because it fit right,,,
The hard drive was off at the time this happened, as well as when I discovred it. So I immediately changed the power cables back, but now it just has the small green power light flashing, no rotation of the drive, won’t turn on and click like normal, won’t detect on my computer.
Is the PSU blown? How can I recover all of my data? Or should I just resort to murdering my sister and stealing all of her money?
¶ it’s not the PSU / power brick for the external drive that’s fried,
it wasn’t plugged in to the drive,
rather the wrong one was plugged in, and most likely fried all the internal components of the enclosure, as well as the drive,♀
HDD’s run on 12v & 5v
most laptop Power bricks provide 18 – 24v which would have cooked the enclosure,
hopefully not the disk electronics,
however, if the switch was in the on position then the drive is most likely “Done” also
the electronics barbecue immediately when a large over voltage like that occurs
you can still attempt to disassemble the enclosure and install the drive in another enclosure or install it internally in your PC