Seagate Portable HD Not Accessible

alz on 25/03/2021 - 13:55

Hi Folks

Plugged in the portable expansion to look at some old docs. It's telling me it not accebile. Googled the issue and none have worked.

Plugged it in the TV (saved movies / pics etc) - works fine.

Any one experienced something like this before?

Comments

Fergy1987 on 25/03/2021 - 13:56

Tried a different USB port?
- alz on 25/03/2021 - 14:16
  
  Tried all the ports in my PC and I have plenty
MS Paint on 25/03/2021 - 14:09

I assume windows 10.

Windows key + X
Select risk management

Can you see drive
- alz on 25/03/2021 - 14:16
  
  Yep, it's there. Healthy. NTFS
  When right clicking drive and going security it says I dont have read permissions but I'm the administrator
  - MS Paint on 25/03/2021 - 14:45
    
    Does it show partitions or is it just all unallocated?
ode1online on 25/03/2021 - 14:46

Can you see it in the disk management tool ? Maybe its Drive letter is assigned to another drive. See if you can change the drive letter
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-assign-permanent-drive-le…
otherwise try another PC… sounds troubling
AwesomeAndrew on 25/03/2021 - 15:52

+1

Try on a computer running Linux. Easiest way is just to grab a spare USB and put Ubuntu on it, boot from the USB and plug in the hard drive and try to access the files. Since Linux usually does't care about file permissions in NTFS, this method should work.