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Got it. I thought that was what you meant as soon as I asked. I re-posted as reply to original poster.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Can you hear/feel it spin up and load when you power it on?
If so you might have some luck pulling the drive itself out and putting it in a USB/SATA dock. I have a two-bay one and use it a lot flipping drives and their contents around.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yes, I think it's spinning up. It's already in an external case
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Can you hear the head moving or is it just the platters spinning?
Jeremy Falcon
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look at these tools, one of them may help you to back up the file from the hard drive...
diligent hands rule....
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Kevin Marois wrote: drive that my PC's are not longer seeing
Try different USB ports, try with all USB cables you have, different computers and operating systems.
Go to windows Disk Management and see if maybe you only need to assign a Drive Letter to the drive.
jhaga
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Won't help if it is the controller, but I have managed to recover data by putting the drive in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Try running Diskpart from the Powershell. At the Diskpart prompt type list disk. Diskpart will see the disk and list it even if it has never been formatted or partitions created. If the disk is not shown in the list of disks recognized by Diskpart, I am afraid I don't believe you can recover it. Good luck!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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If drive is a spinner:
If its clicking, it's over
If you can feel it spinning, there is hope
Crack open the case to extract laptop sized drive and hook it up to sata cables
somehow on another pc or sata to usb adapter to then see if you can see it.
I drive is an SSD:
Silly Wabbit, it's over.
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Is it a HDD with a mechanical failure? As in, do you hear the head attempt to move at all on the platter? If that's the cause, you'll need to carefully transfer the plates to another drive first.
If that's not the case and it's just a corrupted table maybe with a few bad sectors, most file recovery software can help with that.
More importantly, I haven't used HDDs in years, but even back then Seagate is what you used when you don't care about reliability. If it's important, remote backups or a RAID. If it's not important, move on with life. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I almost guarantee it's a drive controller problem. Seagate drives do this to me too.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Oh snap. Yeah, wouldn't surprise me.
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh, you probably know this, but if you do have to transfer the platters to another drive... keep them far, far, far away from magnets during the process. And don't let the oil on your fingers get on them.
Jeremy Falcon
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There should have been a backup.
"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
Rats!
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
hmmm....I hope I outlive that a**hole across the street so I can dance on his grave.
So you are saying I am wasting my time?
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I'm saying next time you should make a backup. 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As others have said, if the drive isn't being seen at all by the host PC, it's unlikely any software will be able to offer much of a solution.
A data recovery service might move its platters to a drive with an identical board. How valuable is that data to you?
I'm not even going to mention backups at this time. I know the feeling, and it's not a good one.
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When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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React
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When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I have recovered data from a drive which had an obviously blown component on its control board, by replacing such board with one from an identical (near enough) drive sourced from Ebay. Less hassle than transplanting the platters (which I have never done). But if it truly is only 5GB it will be very old and almost certainly unavailable.
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mngerhold wrote: and almost certainly unavailable.
But still could be. I found some 5 GB hard drives and even a 21 MB hard drive with just a quick search.
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yes, there are a few - but it has to be the same model.
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Same model is certainly ideal but not necessarily required. There is another poster in this chain that noted they used a similar version.
But of course trying to find one that matches close enough without the technical expertise (and no docs) would make it difficult.
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