I have a Seagate 1TB external hard drive. I was doing a full reformat of the drive the other day and unfortunately, my pc crashed while it was at 94%.
After a reboot, my pc was completely stuck and would not even show the initial splash screen to access the bios until I disconnected the drive I was formatting.
Furthermore, after signing in and reconnecting the drive it does not show up in File Explorer, Disk Management, or Diskpart. However, it does show up in device manager but whenever I try to interact with like populating the volumes, installing new drivers, etc it makes my computer freeze up and hang until it is disconnected from the USB port.
The drive also makes a noticeable beeping sound coming from the enclosure upon startup which I did not notice before.
I have tried a lot of troubleshooting through the bios and various disk utilities but I can't seem to be able to even find the drive so I'm not sure what to do.
This is not a new drive, it is well past its warranty and I would like to continue using it.
smartctl
on Windows. If accessing S.M.A.R.T data shows no hardware issue, or if it hangs in Windows, boot a Linux LiveUSB, installsmartmontools
and use a Linux utility to format (or use Hiren's and boot a DOS partition tool)