Restore Seagate Lost Partition and Files in Windows

Seagate Technology, based in the United States, is a world-renowned storage equipment maker, most hard drives. Seagate helps people all around the world by supplying certified, affordable, and diverse hard disks for a variety of applications.

PC users, hobbyists, and laptop manufacturers all love Seagate drives. They are inexpensive, readily available, and well-known for their dependability. Unfortunately, even for Seagate, data may get lost from Seagate's hard drive for different reasons. Sometimes, the partitions will get lost entirely.

Then, how to perform Seagate partition recovery easily and quickly? Keep reading this article to find out the answer.

How do I recover a partition on my Seagate external hard drive?

You may feel desperate when you realize you have deleted a partition mistakenly, which holds a lot of important data. Luckily, partition deletion only removes the partition information on the partition table and does not completely wipe it from your Seagate external hard drive.

More surprisingly,  with the help of powerful partition recovery software, the lost partition can be recovered. The data in the lost partition will also be recovered.

Powerful partition recovery software for Seagate external hard drive

Users who lost or delete the Seagate partition or data would wonder how to recover them. Here is an easy way to perform Seagate partition recovery, that is using a professional Seagate partition recovery tool, AOMEI Partition Assistant.

It's embedded with a Partition Recovery wizard, which is capable of recovering deleted or lost partition on Seagate external hard drive. You can also use it on other disk brands, such as Toshiba, WD, Samsung, etc. It supports NTFS partition recovery, FAT32, Ext3/Ext4, and is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, and Windows Server. 

✿✿✿ Advanced scanning methods in Partition Recovery
✔ Fast Search: Scan your disk and locate the lost partition quickly. This is the recommended method.
✔ Full Search: Scan every sector of your disk to find the lost partition and the corresponding take longer. It's recommended when Fast Search fails.

Stepwise guide: Seagate external hard disk partition recovery

Follow the detailed steps below to perform Seagate partition recovery. You can download AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional demo version first. For server users, try AOMEI Partition Assistant Server!

Step 1: Install and open AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Select Recover > Partition Recovery at the top and click the disk containing the lost partition. Click on “Next” to proceed.

Step 2: Select Fast Search as it saves more time than Full Search. If it fails to find the lost partition, you can try Full Search again. Then click on “Next”.

Step 3: You will see the list of all lost or deleted partitions, and you can select the one you want to recover.

After the partition recovery process completes, click “Finish” to exit after you see the message “Congratulations”.

Then, you can open Windows File Explorer and check whether the lost partition in Seagate external hard drive is visible and accessible. If the data in the lost partition hasn’t been covered or overwritten by new data, it will be recovered as well.

How to repair corrupted Seagate external hard drive partition?

Below are two effective methods to repair a corrupted Seagate external hard drive partition. Note if there are any important data, you need to recover them first. Professional data recovery software is advised for recovering data from a damaged Seagate partition.

Way 1: Repair corrupted Seagate external hard drive partition using CHKDSK

If the partition on your Seagate external hard drive is visible but not accessible, it has become corrupted. You can use CHKDSK, a Windows built-in tool for error checking, to repair a corrupted Seagate external hard drive partition.  

Step 1: Press “Windows + R”, and input "cmd" to run Command Prompt as an administrator.

Step 2: Type “chkdsk F:/f” and press Enter.

Step 3: Wait for the check process completed.

Some users complain CHKDSK delete files while using it to repair corrupted partition on Seagate external hard drive. If you are one of them, stop this operation now and recover your data as soon as possible with a powerful data recovery software.

We recommend you use MyRecover, released by AOMEI, the industry benchmark in data recovery. It's designed to recover deleted or lost files on health/damaged/formatted disk, from Seagate to WD, Samsung, ADATA, etc., in Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, and Windows Server. All the file systems like FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, and ReFS are supported.

Step 1: Download and install MyRecover on your computer. Hover the mouse over the drive and click Scan to scan.

Step 2: The software will scan your Seagate external hard drive quickly. You can recover the files if you find them in the scanning result even the scan is running. 

Step 3: After the scan completes, you can search the file names or filter the data you need. Choose another location to save the recovered files. 

Way 2: Rebuld MBR for damaged partition on Seagate external hard disk 

Besides, if your Seagate external hard drive may be corrupted due to corrupted partition table, you can try to rebuild the MBR of the corrupted Seagate external hard drive via AOMEI Partition Assistant.

Step 1: Open AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Right-click the damaged disk and select “Rebuild MBR”.

Step 2: Choose a proper MBR type for your current Windows operating system and click “OK”.

Step 3: Click “Apply” > "Proceed"and wait for the process to finish.

Finally, if your Seagate external hard drive is still inaccessible, formatting it could be the best choice. Note this operation will overwrite data if there is any. Please recover lost files on Seagate external hard drive first. MyRecover will be a great choice.

How to prevent Seagate external hard drive data loss

You should always be careful when using Seagate hard drive because some Seagate recovery services are costly, especially for physically damaged hard drive. It's necessary to learn how to prevent Seagate hard drive data loss to avoid the problem.

• The easiest and most sufficient way to protect data from loss is backing up data regularly. You can choose to back up data to CD, external hard drive, or online. AOMEI Backupper is the right one to back up, restore and clone all of your important data. your Windows system, vital data, and necessary applications.
• Use the CHKDSK tool to check and fix Seagate hard drive errors.
• Use firewalls and anti-virus software to keep viruses from infecting your Seagate hard drive.
• Stop using it immediately if you notice any indicators of hard drive failure, such as unusual sounds, and move all of your data to another drive.
• Select the Safely remove hardware and Eject media option to remove a Seagate external hard drive from your computer,

Conclusion

With the help of Seagate partition recovery software - AOMEI Partition Assistant, you can perform Seagate partition recovery in only a few clicks. The files in it will be recovered as well. It also applies to recover deleted or lost partition on different storage device, such as HDD, SSD, USB drive, SD card, etc., regardless of disk brands.  

Begin making backups regularly, whether on the cloud or an external HDD or SSD. A frequent backup will keep your data safe and allow you to get back to work in a matter of minutes or hours if you have a data disaster. Free Windows backup software - AOMEI Backupper is recommended.