Solution to Unrecognized Seagate External Hard drive on Windows 8

I am a Windows 8 user; recently I faced issues whenever I tried to plug my 1 TB Seagate external hard drive, it was saying not recognized. I tried to connect with other systems but there was no change with the status. I checked it by going to disk management, but my drive was not shown there. It was containing lot of important stuff that includes my project. I wondered why Windows 8 not recognizing Seagate external hard drive. Is there any way to fix this issue, so that I can get back my data from Seagate external hard drive?

Seagate external hard drive is widely popular across the globe. It has gained popularity overtime with constant efforts in bringing radical changes to its features. That’s why they are the leading manufacturers of external storage devices. Seagate external hard drive is a very reliable choice, its extensive USB 3.0 feature allows high speed data transfer. The reputation is growing and they are ensuring full support to its users. For windows 8 not recognizing Seagate external hard drive there are several reasons, get some idea about the possible causes before going forward with the solution.

Causes for Windows 8 not recognizing Seagate external hard drive:

• Installation and un-installation of unreliable third party application on your Windows 8 system might damage the Seagate external hard drive.
• Virus attachment or malware threats will corrupt your Seagate external hard drive there by makes it unrecognizable.
• If your Seagate external hard drive is containing lot of bad sectors, software conflicts and any other logical errors, then your hard drive will fail to detect.
• Other reasons include abrupt shutting down of the system when external hard drive is processing files, formatting Seagate external hard drive frequently, system file issues, etc.

Now in order to over these problems you need a most reliable tool which will make the Seagate external hard drive accessible back again. Here we put forth a reliable application that will help you to restore files from unrecognized Seagate external hard drive.

Recovering files from undetectable Seagate external hard drive on Windows 8:

In control panel go to disk management utility and choose device manager.If external hard drive is present then it will show in the disk drive list. If Seagate external hard drive is not there in disk management which means external hard drive is damaged physically and recovery cannot be accomplished. If drive is there in disk drives, format it for making it detected. Formatting leads to loss of data from Seagate external hard drive, but nothing else works at this stage other than formatting to make your Seagate external hard drive recognizable. After this you can always restore data from Seagate external hard drive easily by making use of Recover Seagate application. Besides failed Seagate external hard drive it can also recover data from internal hard drive, SATA drives and other brands of hard drive like Kingston, Toshiba, Sony, Mypassport, etc..

Recover Seagate application is a simple, easy to use and efficient tool that allows you to restore data from failed Seagate external hard drive on Windows 8. Using this utility you can safely restore dead memory cards, USB pen drives, SSD drives and other storage devices. Along with Windows 8, it can also perform recovery of Seagate external hard drives in various other versions of Windows operating system like Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows vista, etc.  This is an ideal tool to recover data from corrupted external hard drive which effortlessly recovers all lost data within minutes. The recovered files from Seagate external hard drive can be stored to any destination as defined by the user.

Additional Features of Recover Seagate application:

• Highly interactive graphical user interface makes things easy for you; no prior technical skill is needed to use this application.
• The recovered files from Seagate external hard drive can be sorted according modification date, name and size.
• This tool can help in recovery of JPEG, PNG, BMP, MP3, WAV, AVI, MP4, MKV, DAT, FLV, DOC and all other major file types of document, photos, music, video, compressed document, etc from Seagate external hard drive.
• Using the trial version of Recover Seagate you can preview the files that are recovered from Seagate external hard drive.
• By utilizing this application user can recover Seagate hard drive after format error that are caused due to bad file system or various reasons.

Follow steps to recover data from Windows 8 unrecognized Seagate external hard drive:

Step (i): Download and install the free trial version of the Recover Seagate software. Launch the installed application by double clicking the Desktop Icon. Main window opens up as illustrated in Figure A.

Figure A: Main Window

Step (ii): Select "Recover Partitions / Drives" option. Later you will be asked to select "Partition Recovery". Select the option and you will be taken to drive selection window.

Figure B: Select Partition Recovery

Step (iii): Select the corrupted hard drive to recover files and click on "Next" to proceed.

Figure C: Select Hard Drive

Step (iv): Software scans the selected drive and displays the recovered files list.

Figure D: Recovered Files