20 Most Recent Seagate FreeAgent Go 120 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive - Page 3 Questions & Answers

you will need to install the drivers for your drive.
xp doesn;t recognize 2.0 usb unless you install drivers and have a usb 2.0 port
but install the drivers and you should get it to recognize

you can go to control panel, system and device manager.
look for a usb device that is not working and right click install drivers or update drivers.
See if it comes up.
Once it does you will see it in the device manager under disk drives

I will give you a easiest way for finding the drivers that you need foryour hardware.Just download the software named driver magician.Installit and it will search for the drivers that is not installed for thehardware you have through internet and will download it for you.

here is the link for that software

http://www.ziddu.com/download/4569239/Driver_Magician_3.42.zip.html

try opening it up, screw loose the connection with your usb (the whole component) and then directly plug it into your computer with the plug that goes into harddrive:)

Antivrius or another program using it...You just need to stop all servicess on task menager then stop mass strorage device

Hey,

The case is most likely faulty, open the case and take the hard drive out from it, then connect it to your computer directly, inside.

If the hard drive has a special connector that you can't connect to your computer please tell me what kind of connector it is and I'll see if theres a adapter available or new case.

Thanks and good luck.
Ekse

go to seagate.com and type drivers in serach box , select your operating system and download and install the drivers.

Hi,

I think the hard drive is causing the issue as the two computer were unable to detect the drive.

In this i want you to disconnect the hard drive & clean the golden edges of the drive and the connctors and connect it back.

Go to BIOS menu & check whether it is detected in the BIOS or not.

If it is not detected, connect the hard drive to another computer which can boot to windows.

And run the diagnostics using the software from the WD site.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1

Error code information you can get from

http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/errorcodes.asp

Check with this.

Good Luck.

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I bought a new seagate 120GB external disk drive. I only store a small file of 40KB but the disk is showing that i have used 25 percent which is equal to 28.2GB, i then delete the small file but the 25 percent used is still showing. Please i need some help on what i can do to get my hard drive back to 120GB even if i need to format the drive.
Thanks in Advance.

i want to add my seagate free agent go 160 GB to window98 computer

Hi,

The only reason for the display "generic volume cannot eject now, try again later" is because it is still being accessed by your PC. This may be due to considerable large file size being transferred and/or being backed up, virus scan, a utility is still doing its work.

To answer your concerns:
1. Will there be a problem ...
Normally no, but yes it does happen. It happens when the actual physical removal of the USB connector(s) is not a continuous single motion.
2. How do you eject ... Shut down/power off your PC, once off remove and reboot.

Hope this be of help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards.

It varies depending on the operating system. You can create a Linux mint DVD and boot that without installing. It will take a moment as it is reading the OS from the DVD then see if you can see it, if so it is OK, if not something is bad or set wrong in the USB hardware system.

You don't need a service centre. Take the drive out the caddy and plug it into a working computer using a SATA to USB cable. If the drive is functional then you'll be able to read it. If the drive is dead then you'll need to get another drive.

you should contact the seagate website and ask for advice, or the retailer you acquired it from

I don't know of any reason this can happen. May be your antivirus corrupted the flash download. remove and download again.

No problem . Just partition the hard drive , and use part a for computer one and part B for computer two.

assuming that "wont start up" means that the drive letter is not visible thru windows explorer/my computer, which is already installed and booted from an internal hard drive... the seagate drives, often, require a patch to work with some windows installs- especially if it is larger than 3 terabytes, and occasionally, if larger than 1 terabyte. if this is the case, the patch is most easily obtained by emailing customer service. if this is not the case, please provide more specifics as to your computer, your version of windows, and exactly what it is not doing when you say 'not starting"

Hard drives are easily damaged when dropped and cannot be repaired.You need a new hard drive.There are companies that can recover data from faulty hard drived BUT it will cost you an arm and a leg for their services..

You can try installing the drive into a new enclosure as long as the internal circuitry of the free agent did not alter the formatting of the hard drive. IE in a buffalo external drive the internal circuitry creates a linux partition on the hard drive that cannot be read by windows directly.