20 Most Recent Seagate FreeAgent Go 250 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive - Page 3 Questions & Answers

This is a common problem with external drives, I have had it happen to Segate, WD, and a few off brand drives. Usually when one of these drives gets flaky, you have 2 options:

1. do a google search on your particular model on how to remove the drive from the case, then install in a desktop computer
2. use disk recovery software to attempt retrieval of files

The first on will work if there is a problem with the driver interface to usb board that is built into your device. By installing in a desktop, you are bypassing this potentially bad part. This step will also make the 2nd option run faster if you have to resort to it.

A good rule of thumb on these devices is to never have only 1 copy of the data.

Good luck retrieving your data!
John Vickers

It's hard to say from your description what the problem is but the first thing to do is determine the condition of the drive. You can check if there are problems with the drive using the free trial version of http://www.hdtune.com/

If it checks out ok then you can try to recover your data with Recuva it's free http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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If the unit has mains power, check that it is getting it. Also if it comes with two usb plugs then make sure both are plugged into usb ports on your pc. Try the unit on someone elses pc/laptop. if it works on theirs then your pc has a problem with the usb ports.

click start control panel administrive tools ,computer management ,device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red x right click to reinstall drivers or if you can see your usb but its not working ports(com&lpt)right click update driver sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable, just replace the cable of the hard disk, when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable everything should work fine again, check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red-white-green-black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems or you might have to install a usb 2 or 3 card they are cheap and easy to install you can buy these on Ebay very cheap if this solution does not work and you might need one hope this helps you

1. How long do you have this disk and how often do you use it? 2. Did you have any problems before? 3. How stops? Suddenly?
What about heat problem, maybe this disk overheating.
PS: What kind of guy? Repairman in service?

well select all the movies as folders and then simply copy paste it to the HDD drive which is present in the my computer . Just the way u do it in USB. Make sure you have the file system on the drive as NTFS and not FAT 32. take the properties of the drive to check your file system . Now if u want to change the file system , just format the drive selecting the file system as NTFS .

Download and install Recover my files->start download .
Once installed ...run it and select recover drive and click next ..select your seagate drive..
Recover My Files data recovery software will recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus or Trojan infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

make sure the connector of the hard drive is in good condition,if the connector is good ,then the hard drive is crashed

First make sure usb cable connected to harddrive is working fine. try it in different usb ports. Press windows key +R key so you can see run then type in run "devmgmt.msc" then press ok so you can see device manager uninstall all usb drivers then it automatic install usb drivers. then check. Also you need to change registry for that type in run "regedit" then press ok then you can see registry editor then locate below key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11 CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} And remove upper filter and lower filter.Then restart computer then check. Also locate the below key and make sure it's value is 3 not 4. HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor make sure start value is 3 not 4. Let me know if you need further assistance. Thanks for using FixYa

you will need an undelete program thara are lots of free ones

http://majorgeeks.com/Free_File_Recovery_d6792.html

Free File Recovery is a small and easy to use application that will help you to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from

digital cameramemory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted from your iPod, or by bugs, crashes and viruses!
hope this helps

the beeps are post during post the very first work is done by the ram all the memory in the ram is first transferred to the hard disk and remains active until turned off. make sure that your RAM is securely seated, click start control panel administrive tools computer management device manager scroll down universal serial bus controllers you should see a yellow question mark? right click to reinstall drivers when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable just replace the cable of the hard disk everything should work fine again, sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable, check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red-white-green-black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems hope this helps

if your computer came with a motherboard disc the drivers could be on it click start control panel administrive tools ,computer management ,device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red x right click to reinstall drivers or if you can see your usb but its not working ports(com&lpt)right click update driver make sure the lead/s that attach to this drive have a secure seating and are not bad/faulty the light on only tells that its getting power it might not be getting enough power you might test the lead/s or just replace the cable of the hard disk, when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable everything should work fine again, sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable, check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red-white-green-black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems hope this helps

I plugged mine's directly through the back of my computer instead of the hub in the front and it's working fine.

Before you open it (and void your warranty), check to see if it works on another computer. If not the HD is most likely dead, and if you still want to open it up you will probably need a security bit set.

Normally, an external HD's trash is part of the PCs trash bin. By emptying the PC trash you also empty anything in the external HD trash.

This issue is related to the hard drive, Have you dropped the hard drive at any time recently? If so then you may have lost your data. Since the hard drive is makeing a beeping noise then the head has died meaning the hard drive is dead hope this helps.

You can either manually copy files by launching windows explorer (right click on the start button, select "explore"), navigating to your files, select the files, hold down CTRL and then tap C to copy, and then navigate to the FreeAgent External Drive (It should be on the right side of Windows Explorer, named "Agent" or similar), and then hold CTRL, and tap the v button to paste.
Alternatively you can navigate to the FreeAgent drive, where there should be a backup program. Launch the program, enter in the details of what and when to backup, and let it run in the background.

It's probably formatted to the wrong filesystem; Macs prefer HFS+, Windows prefers NTFS, but they both can read and write FAT32. I'd recommend using the Mac's Disk Utility application to reformat the drive to be FAT 32 (but be careful, this will erase the external hard drive, so back up first!)