Hello, Ultrastigi -
You may find the instructions here helpful:
https://superuser.com/questions/1122023/my-seagate-1tb-external-hard-drives-micro-usb-port-is-broken
If you do not feel sure of yourself to perform the recommend repair steps, it may be worth the cost to take your Seagate external hard drive to a reputable local computer repair business and find out if they can make the repair.
Note: You will probably have to pay an upfront fee to evaluate what needs to be done to repair the external hard drive. The upfront evaluation fee will then be applied to the actual repair costs.
Personal opinion: It may be well worth it to pay a repair professional to fix the external hard drive versus the chance of your trying to repair it and failing and losing the data saved.
My Seagate 1TB External Hard Drive micro USB port is...
have Seagate 1TB External Hard Drive...
The usb port probably needs to be re-attached to the board, it would likely with have to be soldered.
You may also be able to remove the actual drive from the external enclosure, look online for info on that.
SOURCE: Seagate FreeAgent, 500 GB p/n 9nk2al-510 stopped working
There's not much troubelshooting you can do with a failed external disk. power off PC and hd and then disconnect all cables, wait 30 secs, power the PC on, let it boot to the OS, power the hard drive on and then connect. If the drive shows up but you still cannot access it or get weird property readings, it generally means the hd controller has failed. If the data's worth more than $1000, you can take it to a data recovery group like Ontrak or Cherry Systems, but otherwise, just get a new hd and restore whatever backups you have.
SOURCE: I have the seagate 500 gb p/n 9nk2AL-510 and I
Purchase a new "empty" enclosure, and "transplant" the disk-drive from inside your enclosure into the new enclosure. Cost will be $30 to $40, but all your files on your disk-drive will be accessible.
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