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External hard drive will not turn on and I need to restore from another external backup drive

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Hello,

I have a 3 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Plus that as of September 2, 2013 (was this thing programmed to not work on Labor Day???) no longer powers on and appears to not be repairable without a professional data recovery service which is estimated to cost anywhere from $400 to $1,000.

I have an external 3 TB Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive which is still functioning with a full Acronis True Image 2013 backup of all my drives from August 10, 2013.

I would like to restore the image from the external drive. My internal hard drive is too small to place the recovered data on. Let's say I buy another external 3 TB Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive. What do I need to do in order to restore the data from the August 10, 2013 backup and place it on the new drive? Can I buy any type of external 3 TB hard drive and restore the data to it since I'm starting to think that Seagate is a poor brand based on the number of complaints I've seen for this problem by doing a Google search?

Also, what are your thoughts on professional data recovery services? If I get a successful restoration, I still have 3 weeks of work that I lost. Any input you have on this situation would be greatly appreciated.

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1. As the failed drive is not a system drive, you really don't need to go through a full image restore. You could mount the image or open in Windows Explorer and just copy the files you want from the backup to a new drive.

2. Data recovery services can be expensive, so you must decide how valuable the data are (if you're unable to retrieve them from the ATI backup image). Some firms are very good, some aren't. I used one highly-regarded firm twice, both times to recover important files from the HD of a vice-president who never followed our backup procedures. Both times most of the data were recovered. However, success depends upon the state of the drive. If the drive was kept in use as it continued to fail, potentially much data could be irretrievable.

If data is really valuable for you then, Better to go with third party application like “Remo recover” to restore data from external hard drive. As my friend used this utility before few weeks ago and got all files in few mouse clicks. Just try it.

Data Recovery software proves to be an optimum tool to recover lost or accidentally deleted files and folders from file systems. The tool, Data Recovery is suitable for repairing corrupt FAT and NTFS file systems. Using this software it is possible to recover data from external hard drive partitions, formatted or re-formatted hard disk, corrupt Windows registry and even from damaged hard disk.

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