Question: Hello, my problem looks rather serious. I’m somewhat keen on the software side of things, but not really knowledgeable about hardware. I would really appreciate the help, since there’s lot of useful data on this drive.
The drive in question is Samsung M2 Portable, 750 GB, external obviously. An old one, bought 8 years ago.
Today it suddenly crashed and looked like suddenly-disconnected. Re-plugging it into the USB provided no results. USB ports made no difference. I connected the drive to two other PCs on all their USB ports – no difference. Windows gives no “device connected” sound. When plugged into the USB, the drive’s control light glows – constant, static light.
Using the diskmgmt.msc was useless, the drive can’t be seen there. Neither in Device Manager. Neither the CrystalDiskInfo.
I suppose the drive is really dead, but I would like to retrieve the data somehow…
Is anything possible?
Please help. Thanks for everybody interested!
Answer:If you really need the data then send it out for recovery.
The M2’s are not generally transferable to another enclosure or internally to a PC. They do not have Sata/Power connectors.