Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home 1TB Not able to detect

  Ok. So earlier this year, as I was trying to back up my hard disk to my NAS which is of course the Seagate Goflex Home.  And while halfway trying to access the NAS, my file explorer refused to respond and the next thing I knew. Everything was gone.  Tried accessing from the website stated there was no device being connected.  And you could imagine the horror I've gone through where I almost fell into absolute shock because all the pictures and videos of my baby girl gone just like that!  I did what everyone would have done, reboot the device hope that all will be well. That didn't worked.  Turn off maybe a few days for the hard disk to rest and hopefully when it's back on it will magically appear once again.  But that didn't work too.  

  So I decided not to do anything about it. 7 months after the incident had happened and I totally forgotten about it (probably trying to deny the fact that I didn't want to tell Deluxe that Esther's photos were gone).  After installing Ubuntu 14.04 onto my old desktop, I decided to try accessing the hard disk once more.  Lo and behold, I was finally able to see that it's actually connected in a sense where there is the 4 folders which by default it has.  One for backup, external storage, personal folder and public folder.  I got so excited that I tried to access it but still failed. Whereby suddenly I had the inspiration in doing this.

Flipping the hard disk this way instead of standing vertical

  Instead of letting it stand vertically, I made it lie flat on like the picture above.  Initially when I flipped the wrong side, the hard disk wouldn't run.  But after flipping this side round.  Once I turn on the NAS sweet sound of hard disk spinning and everything was back to normal.  I tried accessing it one more time, finally after 7 long months all my files are still intact!  So I quickly transferred all the videos and photos out from the NAS onto my desktop. So now, I'll most likely get a replacement hard disk for this NAS.  And probably pop the current hard disk into my desktop and see how it goes.  Never the less I'm glad that I can get back the files and once I replaced the hard disk I'll probably go and format my laptop to run Ubuntu instead :)