Additionally lower energy requirements allow many portable drives to be bus powered which means they draw power from the host computer using the same cable as data transfer.
Seagate 1tb external hard drive usb port broken.
2 once disk utility is launched a drive list will be displayed in the left hand column.
The other assumption that your seagate hard disk not detected is because the file system has corrupted.
Reformatting unmountable seagate external hard drive.
Desktop external hard drives.
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If it is missing verify that other drives have a letter.
Click run to repair this seagate hard drive.
External portable drives consist of a 2 5 hard drive in a compact protective enclosure that packs easily and travels light.
Select the unmountable seagate external hard drive in the left sidebar and choose first aid at the top.
Click on the drive icon to highlight the drive and the window will display the information about the current drive and the file system.
Thinking the usb cable might be loose i took it out and then put it back into the usb port on the seagate drive but the usb port broke and fell.
The drive would light up but my laptop couldn t detect it.
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If other drives have a letter but the external is missing then you can right click and select change drive letter or path.
This video shows you how to fix broken usb port of external hard drive and gives you other option if the port can t be fixed.
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3 the external seagate drive should appear in this list as a selectable drive.
Drive letter verify that the drive has a drive letter.