20 Most Recent Trekstor DataStation maxi 200 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive Questions & Answers

An external storage-device has four major components:

* the USB cable

* the power-adapter

* the disk-drive inside the enclosure

* the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

One of these components has failed.

Try a different USB cable.

Try connecting to a different USB port on your computer.

Try connecting to a USB port on a different computer.

Take a "multi-meter" and measure both the voltage and amperage output from the AC adapter, and compare with the specifications on the label on the adapter.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and then connect it as a "slave" disk-drive in a desktop computer, to see if it works at all.

Purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Get the part-number and serial-number from the label on your disk-drive, and access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status", to see if they will replace the device, at minimal cost to you.

There exist commercial "data recovery" services that can try to repair your device, just long-enough to rescue and copy your files. For example, see: https://services.seagate.com/index.aspx?lng=en-US for a "no data - no charge" guarantee.

Seagate requires both a model number and serial number to check warranty status. Once located you can check the warranty here: http://support.seagate.com/customer/en-us/warranty_validation.jsp

if you are referring to a corrupted usb driveclick start control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now start you might tick one box then return after its finished the first repair then return and tick the second box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage this drive I found that you get best results by ticking one box then returning after it has finished then tick the other box If you need more help with this post a reply hope this helps you

click start all programs accessories open windows explorer navigate to your photos right click on the photo's select copy navigate back to the usb drive right click select paste or select the top photo hold the mouse cursor then select the bottom photo then drag the photos to your usb drive then drop them or if you are downloading photos from the internetonce it starts downloading windows will ask whether you want to run or save it a browse option will open you can save it into a folder in my documents or another device or a usb deviceif you need more help with this post a reply hope it helps you

It can be format or you look for another one

abdiasdad74 I know the post is 8 years old and no one might read it, but his fix actually worked - no joke. I tried the fix on 2 laptops and when I did what he said, it worked. cool :)

OK hello I'm new to the tech support any way how much memory on the Hard drive and much is left on the external drive it may ask you to merge to tell you you need room for all files and that you may have almost reached the compasity on the drive

You cant. If your device was supported by windows 98, its a dinosaur. There would not be windows 7 drivers written for a device so old. If you can remove the hard drive from the case it is in and acquire an IDE to usb cable with a power pack to power up the drive you can read the drive that way, assuming the hard drive was formatted NTFS.

The sound you are hearing is known as the click of death. The hard drive is no longer any good.

it is difficult to recover it from that partition..use this software
"Recover My Files" if it is recover then ok otherwise use "Virtual Lab"
if it is not again recoverable then noway to recover. after all efforts one thing u can do is to quick format it and then try recover my files to recover from fast formated drive....but chances r very less something like wallpapers and songs can be recover.
Good Luck.
Hope the files will recover