NOOOOO
I was in the middle of transferring a file to an external hard drive when it suddenly stopped.
I disconnected the hard drive and reconnected it, nothing.
IT'S DEAD.

Never use cut, paste
Always copy, paste, delete.

F for the drive
++ for your name

Take it apart, most likely only the USB board is broken.

@irene
If he moved files and it crashed it is related.

backups, man. Backups.

@RememberMe Haha thanks

@StefanH Lol it's seagate, fortunately I still have warranty so we'll see

@StefanH

I can confirm, Ive seen that vid, here is url to see yourself https://youtube.com/watch/...

Seagate was good pre-2013.
After that, they kiiiindda went downhill.
For best drives IMHO try to go after HGST, I know that WD took them, and from my expirience, all my hardware has HARD ban on WD, especially WD blue (more like WD RIP your data). 100% of WDs that I owned (quite a few) died within first 3 years.

I had few HGSTs in my home and one (that was on mother's laptop) was dying (not quite there but definitely you could hear clicking and shit, it was slow as fuck, but continued to work). Mother took whole month to figure out "my pc is so slow I will ask my son to fix it". Pulled all data out, replaced, put data back in. Month of immidiet failing state. And still 100% data readable (altho pulling it out took... holly shit too much time, like week... avarage 700-900 kb/s)

@irene
O.O
Well, congratulations. I had few WD drives, most of them blue (bc wd blue are cheapest hdds mostly). Most failures were sudden, with smarts OK (I have smart monitor that notifies me if sth is up)

Real pain was my first WD Blue death.
Real
Fucking
Pain.

I was younger, thus stupider, didn't have any backup.
All gone the hell. I still remember the day. I put my laptop to sleep, go out from home, go back, put my laptop back on, Windows is kindda screwwy... It bearly let me to log in, and than hard froze. Okay, WTF, reboot.

Rebooting....
No bootable media found...

SHIT!!!
Okay, pulled drive out, to usb enclosure, got other PC, plugged in, ran on linux, let's try to dd /dev/XXX..... Nope.
Fuqing nope.
okay, testdisk...
"Sector 1....." (1h later)
"Sector 10...."
well... RIP.. FML..

Than I learned to allways, fucking allways make backups.

Some time into future, my other WD Blue died, and backups were on other wd blue that died week later lol. Luckly long nuff to restore.

@irene

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Im really really very jellous for people who use WD blue for years and somehow they didn't lose data.

I lost easly one of most important data in that disk I think I had.

And even if it was literally... 5y ago? 6y ago? Im still absolutely pissed to the edge of possibility on myself I didnt make a motherfucking backup ;-;

Why the fuck I was so utterly fucking stupid? no idea.

Guys, dont repeat my mistake. Do backups or you may have unpleasant suprise. I dont really care if you use WD or Seagate or whatever. Every drive can fail. Every single drive will fail one day, and just be ready for that day to come.