My seagate freeagent go (320gb) is not recognised by my pc (XP), also, when connect the My Computer function doesn't work, it just opens a window and freezes and doesn't display the drives. All my music is on it and iTunes can't locate the files, and finally, I only have about 80gb on it but when it was still installed and I checkde properties it said all 320gb were taken and there was no free space. Help!!

SOURCE: seagate freeagent drive

Hi George,

The seagate freeagent should be reconigized by windows. The question is are you adding an additional partition or do you want to create a brand new partion. I'm assuming you want to add.

You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent, contiguous unallocated space on the same disk. To extend a basic volume, it must be formatted with the NTFS ile system. You can extend a logical drive within contiguous free space in the extended partition that contains it. If you extend a logical drive beyond the free space available in the extended partition, the extended partition grows to contain the logical drive as long as the extended partition is followed by contiguous unallocated space.

To extend a basic volume

1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Type: diskpart
   
3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list volume
   Make note of the number of the basic volume you want to extend.
   
4. At the DISKPART prompt, type: select volume n
   Selects the basic volume, n, you want to extend into contiguous, empty space on the same disk.
   
5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: extend [size=n] Extends the selected volume by size=n megabytes (MB).
   

Value Description list volume Displays a list of basic and dynamic volumes on all disks. select volume Selects the specified volume, where n is the volume number, and shifts the focus to it. If no volume is specified, the select command lists the current volume with focus. You can specify the volume by number, drive letter, or mount point path. On a basic disk, selecting a volume also gives the corresponding partition focus. extend Extends the volume with focus into next contiguous unallocated space. For basic volumes, the unallocated space must be on the same disk as, and must follow (be of higher sector offset than) the partition with focus. A dynamic simple or spanned volume can be extended to any empty space on any dynamic disk. Using this command, you can extend an existing volume into newly created space. If the partition was previously formatted with the NTFS file system, the file system is automatically extended to occupy the larger partition. No data loss occurs. If the partition was previously formatted with any file system format other than NTFS, the command fails with no change to the partition.
You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions.
size=n The amount of space, in megabytes (MB), to add to the current partition. If you do not specify a size, the disk is extended to take up all of the next contiguous unallocated space.
Notes

• To open a command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
• You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.
• To extend a basic volume, it must be formatted with the NTFS file system.
• You can only extend a basic volume onto the same disk.
• You can only extend a basic volume if it is followed by contiguous unallocated space.

Hope this helps!

Thanks
Mark

SOURCE: I cannot see my free agent external drive

Thanks for your responses...

I've pretty much decided that it must be a hardware problem within the harddrive itself...Can anyone lead me in the right direction to maybe take out the harddrive to put into another external shell in order to hopefully recover my data? Again I'm using a Seagate Freeagent Desktop 500GB external harddrive.

SOURCE: my son knocked the seagate freeagent down and it

Probably bad. Is it not being recognized by your system, no matter what you do?

SOURCE: Seagate Freeagent 1.5TB hard drive beeping

have you ever found a solution? i have the same problem with my seagate barracuda 7200.11 1,5TB

SOURCE: Where get free drivers for Seagate FreeAgent Go

I'm not sure what drivers you're looking for in particular, however, I've found the Seagate FreeAgent download page for you. I've clicked around and all of these downloads appear to be completely free.

These files should be completely safe for download as they are provided by Seagate but don't neglect to set a restore point on your system before downloading and installing. The files are .zip so they must be unzipped, your system should be able to do this without any additional software.

Also, be sure to register your equipment to get customer support should contacting them be necessary. Some of these will require you to contact the company in order to gain access to the download.

Check here:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=freeagent-downloads&vgnextoid=3723b5b59b7d5110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD