Heres the list of some of the most reliable methods that will help you know how to recover files from Seagates external hard drive. Apart from using third-party data recovery software, you can recover data from Seagate hard drive using some other methods. As we can see from the image below, our hard disk with the Date Code 13395 was manufactured on Wednesday 3rd April 2013 (fiscal year 2013, week 39, day 5). Alternatives to Recover Lost Data from Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive. We have selected the Date Output Pattern to match a long date pattern which includes the day of the week. In the Value box, enter the Seagate Date Code. Edit the Partition Size, select Drive Letter and File System for Seagate 4TB hard drive. With the Time Decoding tab selected, change the Value Input Format to Text. Right click Seagate 4TB hard drive, choose Create Partition. To make it easier for you to decipher Seagate Date Codes, we have added decoding to our timestamp tool DCode™. Seagate DiscWizard is an app that works with Maxtor and Seagate disc drives. Seagate uses a fiscal year for their calculation which starts on the first Saturday in July (week 1), with the days of the week running from Saturday (day 1) through to Friday (day 7).įor example, the fiscal year 2021 starts on Saturday 4th July 2020 (Date Code 2111) and ends on Friday 2nd July 2021 (Date Code 21527). It is also a free download and should also be able to be run from a BartPE boot CD via the BartPE plugin.
So how do we decode this number? The format is simple enough, YYWD or YYWWD where Y is the year, W is the week number and D is the day number. BTW Maxtors Maxblast 5 appears identical to the Seagate Disk Wizard which should be useful to those who have Maxtor drives and not Seagate drives.