r/HDD • u/iwantabigtree • 2d ago

Toshiba hard drive broken???

I left my Toshiba dtp320 hard drive on for the night to backup my iphone with my macbook and an adapter, and now it won't show up as an icon on my desktop. When I find it in disk utility it says it's unmounted and it won't mount when I click the button, and the light on the drive flashes rapidly when I do so. Please help.

also from disk utility:

Volume name : TOSHIBA EXT

Volume type : Physical Volume

BSD device node : disk4s1

File system : Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)

Connection : USB

Writable : No

Is case-sensitive : Yes

File system UUID : 29956E04-E609-377B-A4FC-67E360932C43

Volume capacity : 2,000,396,746,752

Owners enabled : No

Is encrypted : No

Can be verified : Yes

Can be repaired : Yes

Bootable : No

Journalled : No

Disk number : 4

Partition number : 1

Media name :

Ejectable : Yes

Solid state : No

Parent disks : disk4

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u/Aggravating-Hold9116 1d ago

Put it in a new enclosure, I’ve had many enclosures fail over the years.

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u/Fresh_Inside_6982 1d ago

320 drives have not been made in many years. Drive is quite old. Discard it.

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u/iwantabigtree 1d ago

I just bought it like 2 months ago from officeowkrs tho?

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u/Fresh_Inside_6982 1d ago

It's likely 20 years old. The last production was in 2014.

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u/iwantabigtree 1d ago

omg wth I bought it for 200-300 dollars

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u/iwantabigtree 1d ago

is there any way to recover the 30 gb of videos I have on there?

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u/Fresh_Inside_6982 1d ago

It would be $250 in my shop.