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Save files from "No media" external hard drive
Hey everyone,
I am lost. I have been googling for hours but I can't figure out if there is anything left to do to restore my external hard drive data.
I have an external hard drive that occasionally had reading issues, sometimes I just had to plug it in again and it recognized the hard drive after a while. Now it does not recognize the hard drive anymore.
It is a 1TB Intenso 2,5" external hard drive and probably around 8 years old.
I don't really care about the harddrive anymore, I have 2 new ones already, but one thing I would really like to recover are all my photos. It contains all pictures I have taken on any phone since 13 years and it's my only backup (in hindsight, that was stupid).
I tried different computers and different cables, all to the same result, even tried to read it on MacOs.
In "This PC", there is no drive showing up.
In disk management, there is no partition or anything available, just the disk showing up (see images).
The driver is some windows default driver, although I am sure that while it was still working it would show INTENSO in the device manager.
diskpart list and
Disk Part:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 233 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> uniqueid disk
Disk ID: 00000000
DISKPART> detail disk
PI-239 USB 2.0 Drive USB Device
Disk ID: 00000000
Type : USB
Status : No Media
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
There are no volumes.
Is there anything left to do for me?
Any ideas if this is solvable?
Thanks in advance for your help, if you need any more information let me know.
Bests,
Matthias