Seagate Freeagent

Mooch25 · 03-17-2008, 07:48 PM

I am a new member here so please forgive my ignorance if I make any mistakes. I recently purchased a Seagate Freeagent external Hard drive 320 gig and it seemed to be working fine. I proceeded to transfer some files(movies) over to it and everything was going smoothly. During one of the transfers I got myself a i/o error. My system shows it is connected to my computer but when I go to My Computer it ISNT listed. Like it is not formatted or something.

Reason I say not formatted cause when I first got it it was formatted as FAT32 and set to 116gig. So I called the store up I bought it at and they walked me through deleting the partitions. While doing so it failed to appear as well and I had to take it in to get reformatted.

I am at a loss as to why transferring files can cause this to happen if indeed it is in need of being reformatted yet again after getting it back only 3 hrs ago.

**Deleted090308** · 03-18-2008, 03:26 AM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

If you can afford to lose the files on the drive I think you should take it back and get a replacement. Sounds like a wonky drive.

If you want to try getting access to your files again: Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

03-17-2008, 07:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mooch25 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Win xp home	Seagate Freeagent I am a new member here so please forgive my ignorance if I make any mistakes. I recently purchased a Seagate Freeagent external Hard drive 320 gig and it seemed to be working fine. I proceeded to transfer some files(movies) over to it and everything was going smoothly. During one of the transfers I got myself a i/o error. My system shows it is connected to my computer but when I go to My Computer it ISNT listed. Like it is not formatted or something. Reason I say not formatted cause when I first got it it was formatted as FAT32 and set to 116gig. So I called the store up I bought it at and they walked me through deleting the partitions. While doing so it failed to appear as well and I had to take it in to get reformatted. I am at a loss as to why transferring files can cause this to happen if indeed it is in need of being reformatted yet again after getting it back only 3 hrs ago.

03-18-2008, 03:26 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Seagate Freeagent Hi, welcome to TSF. If you can afford to lose the files on the drive I think you should take it back and get a replacement. Sounds like a wonky drive. If you want to try getting access to your files again: Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?