I do not know about this, some may have a good soldering skills to help you with, you may try to state your situation and see if any can help you with it.

p/s: Make a call first is a good start, won't waste your petrol asking for nothing.

if the data in the hdd is very important, can open the hdd then put internally in pc to copy the data.
wheres ur location?
pm me. maybe can be done.

This post has been edited by Max: Feb 18 2014, 03:37 PM

hi there,
thanks for reply.
I already took my external hard disk to the local computer shop. They inspected the external hard disk and found out the port connection the hdd is broken. Besides that, my external hard disk is on-board type so it seems unable to recover the data.

Does my external hdd still have chances to be saved?

Well, like I said, most probably the connector's solder is loosen, need to re-solder it back, if the connector itself is totally out of shape (metal is bent or disjoint) then the chances is low unless they have the exact replacement parts which I doubt so.
The shop probably do not want to make your repair, very rare people wants to risk their business repair very sensitive part, you can however ask a few if you can come by, probably some electronic shop that do electric watches repair? If you seriously want to get your data back, that is.
Otherwise expert/professional recovery option is very expensive, checking only cost you RM300 no including postage, and will depends on how much you want to recover, they may charge you per GBs, this one I don't know how much le...

did they crack open the hdd case?
usually external hdd also same as internal hdd. just with casing and usb interface.

So what HDD brand is the best nowadays, in term of reliability?
I've been using Samsung Spinpoint F4 for years now without any problem.

I'm looking to buy new HDD but has a question regarding which brand to choose.

Should i buy the same Samsung HDD or is there any good reason for me to buy other brand instead?

you already have your own answer

I'm just wondering if other brand of HDD is better ya know.
Well i guess i just buy samsung brand then.

You do know right that Samsung hardisk division was bought over by Seagate?

yet both brand existed

I didnt know that.
Just googled and read the news.

Apparently Seagate did bought Samsung harddisk division back in 2011.
Huh, interesting.

Can you still get Samsung F4E brand new?

All good brands telan by bigger companies. WD telan Hitachi which is my favourite HD manufacturer. But then WD still allows Hitachi to manufacture from their Shenzen plant and sell them out in the market unlike Samsung which you cannot find anymore.

can someone help me.. my external drive can't be detected. When i plug it in, the external drive does not show up in My computer.

When i open the drive manager, i can see My passport. I formated the external recently and this happened.

any advice?

Just assign any drive letter to the external drive and you should be able to see it at My Computer.

never buy any samsung hdd tho
but all computer shop do list Samsung brand under their hdd catalogue

Which shop list Samsung brand hardisk?

How long does it take get a new/repaired hdd after sending it to Seagate for RMA?

Mine returned after 4 days after I shipped, it's a round trip so it's extremely fast, Seagate drive with Samsung brand, I believe it's a new drive.
As for Western Digital, it took more than a week, at least it return me a new drive.
As for packaging, Seagate is the most generous, big box, 2 inches of foam to protect the drive with static bag, Western Digital only has like 1 inch only.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Feb 25 2014, 07:38 AM

sorry, deleted

This post has been edited by super macgyver: Feb 25 2014, 04:35 PM

ur 1tb height is 9.5mm or 12.5mm?

Lacie which using seagate hdd inside

u can consider WD RE4 with 5yr wrty