So my friend had a relatively new Seagate drive hooked up to his [older, buggy, 2007-era] iMac, and one day, it just totally stopped working. It did not even show up in Disk Utility at all -- it wasn't there. I tried the usual things, including ripping the drive out and putting it into a new enclosure, to no avail. He sent it out for an expensive repair, and they put the data onto a new hard drive for him.
Upon getting the new drive, he plugged it into his iMac, saw all the data... and by the next morning this NEW drive had stopped working! Unlike the first time, though, the drive now shows up in Disk Utility, but is without a partition. Drive Genius, Data Rescue and DiskWarrior all cannot see, read or repair it whatsoever. All utilities think it has no partition of any kind, and cannot reset the partition map.
What?! This is a brand-new drive, albeit with the restored data from the dead drive. Yet it showed up last night! I guess this leaves me with...
1. Any thoughts on how to recover this? Doubtful it's hardware this time, as this recovery drive is just days old.
2. This sounds dumb even to me, but, any chance his iMac is killing the drive on its own? The thing worked the previous night on someone else's laptop, and then after a night plugged into the iMac, stopped working altogether. Nothing was put onto the drive, no utilities run. All that happened is that that it was plugged in for a few hours.
Upon getting the new drive, he plugged it into his iMac, saw all the data... and by the next morning this NEW drive had stopped working! Unlike the first time, though, the drive now shows up in Disk Utility, but is without a partition. Drive Genius, Data Rescue and DiskWarrior all cannot see, read or repair it whatsoever. All utilities think it has no partition of any kind, and cannot reset the partition map.
What?! This is a brand-new drive, albeit with the restored data from the dead drive. Yet it showed up last night! I guess this leaves me with...
1. Any thoughts on how to recover this? Doubtful it's hardware this time, as this recovery drive is just days old.
2. This sounds dumb even to me, but, any chance his iMac is killing the drive on its own? The thing worked the previous night on someone else's laptop, and then after a night plugged into the iMac, stopped working altogether. Nothing was put onto the drive, no utilities run. All that happened is that that it was plugged in for a few hours.