20 Most Recent Seagate FreeAgent Pro - 500GB, 7200 RPM, USB 2.0, eSATA, External 500 GB Hard Drive - Page 9 Questions & Answers

you will need to run a server edition operating system and set the drive you have now [C:]/DEV to what ever second backup you want to have EX: [D:] [E:] etc.

not possible to automate unless you have a server running. You could always just back up to the seagate and set scheduled tasks in windows to every (week, month, etc) to back up the entire folder of your I-tunes every so often.

Hard drives won't safely eject if there's any program working with any files in that hard drive. For example, if you have a word document open from that hard drive, it won't eject.

try to connect to a different computer if it works you are good if not your device is burned out and you need to find a tech to take it apart and see if he can salvage the data on the HD good luck

if this is a new drive that has never been used then i would say first formate the drive. if it still doesnt read it contact the makers and troubleshoot it with them. i had a drive like this before and had no problems.

Hi i have the same model and it requires no drivers on XP, Vista or Windows 7 its just straight out plug and play. Try a different USB port or better still another computer just to see if its the Hard Drive or the computer. Cheers from Scott and please vote

The Disk Management snap-in is an administrative tool for managing hard disks and the volumes or partitions that they contain. Use the Disk Management snap-in when you want to add, to change, or to remove drive letters on drives, on partitions, or on volumes on your computer's hard disks, CD-ROM drives, and other removable media devices.

Your computer can use up to 26 drive letters, from A through Z. Use drive letters C through Z for hard disk drives. Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives. However, if your computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can assign these letters to removable drives.

Before you modify drive-letter assignments, note the following items:

• Changing the drive letter of the system volume or the boot volume is not a built-in feature of the Disk Management snap-in.
• Many MS-DOS-based and Microsoft Windows-based programs refer to specific drive letters for environmental or other variables. If you modify the drive letter, these programs may not function correctly.

How to assign a drive letterTo assign a drive letter to a drive, a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
   
   Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then clickDisk Management in the left pane.
4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Click Add.
6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
7. Click OK.

The drive letter is assigned to the drive, to the partition, or to the volume that you specified, and then that drive letter appears in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the Disk Management tool. Thanks or using FixYa! John

Hi, Thanks for using fixya.

Things to try:
1. With the device connected to the usb port Right click on My Computer/Computer choose manage. On the left side make sure storage is expanded double click disk management on the left upper side see if Seagate is listed. If it isn't go to try 2. If it is on the lower part find your Seagate right click on it choose change drive letter and paths. Click on change, take note of what the drive letter is now (you'll need to change it back later), you will see a drop down arrow click that choose the first available letter, Now click on change. Open My Computer/Computer see if it is now listed. If it is go back and change the drive letter to what it was before.

2. With the device connected to the usb port reboot your computer when it comes back,open My Computer/Computer see if it is now listed. If it isn't next step.

3. Take another device such as: camera flash drive ect Pull the Seagate from the usb port and place the other device cable into it. If it is not listed in My Computer/Computer try another usb port if it is listed take the Seagate back to where you purchased it, See if it is under warranty If not replace the Seagate sorry but your data may be lost.

Terry

If you have any further questions regarding this matter feel free to post a comment or if you are satisfied with my answer, please give it a rating for this is the reason I do this work.

Hi. I also have one doing this all the time. Never been able to remove it safely like we always should do. I remove it anyways when the light is not blinking and I never had any problems.

Can you give any more information? What kind of PC? Age of PC? How old is the external drive? is the drive new? Esata is different then USB. Make sure you are connecting to an eSATA port on the computer. Newer laptops usually have a shared eSATA and USB port.

why not read more forums.... regarding thoise problems

No, it can be used only to play movies that are already in it on the tv.

check to see if sea gate cord does not have a short in it replace cord.

My analysis is that your drive might encountered a virus on it. Normally, the file types that were disappeared are the files that was severely infected to it. I suggest to back up your files by transferring the files from your external drive to another drive (could be a CPU internal hard drive or another external hard drive) so that it will not damage the other files. You might as well restart the pc after doing it so..

Hi,

Try doing flea power & the power cycle.

1. Disconnect all the peripherals like keyboard,mouse,printer, scanner & monitor and power supply from the CPU.

And press & hold the power button for 2 min, it will release the flea power from the mother board.

Restart the system & check.

2. Disconnect everything.wait for 5-10 minutes and then connect every thing.

Restart the system.

If it does not resolve the issue then you can try this : 

Check this before you try to edit the registry values. 

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/profiles.1.html

Just remove the registry key it happen when this key is corrupted.

HLKM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR

And delete all references to the external hard drive. 

And also HLKM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB 

and found the keys associated with the USB to IDE value.

After restarting the system, the drive should be detected & configured automatically by the computer.

Disclaimer : I will not be held responsible for anything that happens to your computer as a result of following my guide. Use this guide at your own discretion and risk.

Also if you still need driver: 

This is the best way to download the drivers of all your devices which are connected to the system for free.

You can download the Driver Magician from this link :

http://www.toggle.com/lv/group/view/kl34858/Driver_Magician.htm

Download the reg key from this link :

http://public.box.net/paul123

then doule click & select ok.

Run the program and select update drivers, it will list the list of pdated drivers.

Select the drivers and select download drivers.

If it does not download just select the driver you need and at the bottom you would see a link,

Just copy that link and download from your browser or download manager, I use orbit downloader.

Good Luck.

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One problem could be that the drive is trying for a drive letter that is already taken by the system.

1.) Click Start->Setting's->Control Panel->Administrative tools.
2.) Computer Management
3.)In the management tool under Storage->Disk Management.
4.) Can you see your drive in the list?
5.) If already formatted and data present and you can see your drive right click on the drive and click on change drive letter and assign a new drive letter to it.
7.) If showing unused you will have to format it.
8.) Now after you change the drive letter it should appear in Explorer.

Hope this helped.

Most simple way would be to buy yourself one of those USB thumb drives they are so cheap nowdays or if the computers are both on the internet you can just email it. Cheers from Scott and plz vote

hard need replacemnt