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Old 03-17-2008, 07:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 03-18-2008, 03:26 AM   #2 (permalink)
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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?
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