Re: Dead external Seagate 5 TB portable HDD from 2020 (ordered at that year IIRC)?

[email protected] (Ant) Thu, 06 Apr 2023 03:14:45 +0000

Newsgroups	alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
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In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Char Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2023 22:01:41 +0000, [email protected] (Ant) wrote:

> >Hello,
> >
> >It seems like my Seagate 5 TB portable backup HDD (Model: SRD0NF1; P/N: 2N1AP8-500; 2020; 3 partitions [encrypted APFS + exFAT + encrypted old HFS+(journal)) just died. My 4 computers (2 MBPs (2012 Mojave & 2020's Big Sur) + 2 PCs [Linux/Debian bullseye and 64-bit Windows 10]) don't see the drive anymore. 

> I would attempt to remove the drive from its enclosure so that I could
> test the drive by itself, just on the possibility that the problem lies
> with the enclosure rather than the drive.

What's the best way to open it? I see no screws. :(
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