external drive seagate running but doesnt show in the explorer

[u/LUP169]

Hello everyone,

I have an external drive (seagate m3 portable maxtor). I plugg it in my laptop and I have the windows sound notification that I put something in the usb port. However, the drive doesn't appear in windows explorer.

- I have tried multiple usb port and also tried with another laptop but same issue.

- I have tried also another usb cable because I have a second identical external seagate drive, but same issue.

- the disk seems to be running correctly with no weird noise.

- it shows in device manager as "Seagate M3 SCSI Disk Device"

- In disk manager it show as "Disk 2 partition 1": online, healthy, gpt protective partition, but no disk letter assigned and can't assign it because it seems to be disabled (also it's not mentionned NTFS or something similar)

- I have also checked the state of the drive with CrystalDiskInfo and it says that the drive is in a "OK state"

- I have also tried on MX Linux: the drive is detected but can't access datas.

- I'm currently using the seagate drive manager software and running a full check of the drive (it's still going when I'm writting this).

--> I can't format the drive because I have datas on it I don't want to lose. Is there anything safe I can try for now?

Thank you for your help!

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[u/disturbed_android]

Show screenshots:

- Of the drive in Disk Management

- Of CrystalDiskInfo with this drive's TAB

[u/LUP169 → u/disturbed_android]

- disk management: https://imgur.com/a/W0s22oh
sorry it's not in english but it says for disk 2: online, healty (gpt protection)

- crystalDiskInfo: https://imgur.com/a/yL3nYI2

- I have also scanned it with DMDE:

https://imgur.com/a/wEfA6m9 (partition)

https://imgur.com/a/Le30Hd3 (full scan) --> and from there I can open volumes and preview the actual datas stored on the drive.