Usb broke off my seagate 320gb external

Hi Kathleen,
Depending on the extent of the damage it may be possible for your local PC store technician to repair the USB connector.
Take the drive to your local PC store and enquire about a repair and what the cost would be.
At the same time you can ask them what it will cost for a new external USB hard drive case. They can easily remove your hard drive from the damaged case and install it into a new case. This will most likely be cheaper than having the old one repaired, as a new case should only set you back $10 or $20.
Best wishes,
Graemevm

First thing to do is try a USB port on the back of your computer. Also try another computer to see if it is just a bad port.

Since this external hard drive is USB powered and felt on the floor, you could have a broken USB connector or interface card, both located inside hard disk case, you should contact Seagate technical support or repair service, or if you have electronics skills, you could open and check hardware by yourself.

the usb ports on your laptop may have insufficient power to operate the drive, you could try a double usb cable, it has a mini usb at one end and two normal usb at the other, so it shares the power from two ports.

Yes just fixed mine. Went to radio shack bought a gigaware sata 3.5 external enclosure.
Took the harddrive out of old enclosure. pryed off external alluminum case to expose a panel that sticks out to the side where the broken usb plug went. Wiggled that off then placed in new enclosure fits good. secured with old screws. plugged it in and it works great. The new usb plug is much sturdier. The external case cost me about $40.00 and some change but Im glad i retreaved my data. I will never buy another seagate. Hope this helps...Alan

Seagate have agents around the world that can repair such.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/

Yeah you can probably just get the enclosure dissassembled. googling " how to disassemble seagate freeagent pro" pulled up a few links but if you're not comfortable doing that, try asking for help from local college computer lab geeks. I'm on the other side of the country from you so, can't help you much. The usb port that fell off was probably connected to the drive via an adapter so likely the hard drive itself is not damaged. Data recovery is much more expensive and I agree it isn't reasonable for this kind of problem.

You can buy a USB to USB mini cable at almost any store with PC accessories, even Walmart. Buy a high quality one since the drive is powered from the USB 2.0 port. Good Luck

I bought PC Beginner from www.PCbeginner.com . It has programs that I have used to recover photos. It has other good utilities on it too. It's a good disk to have.

Then you need to get it repaired there is no alternative.Contact you company if ur comp is still under warranty else you can contact any comp repair shop.