Win 7 Won't recognize 2 Seatgate FreeAgent Drives I have been using a Seagate FreeAgent 340 GB desktop hard drive. Recently I bought a Seagate FreeAgent GO drive. My computer will recognize and list only one of the two drives. If I unplug the desktop before I boot, then the portable Go drive is listed. If I leave the desktop drive plugged in and boot up, then only the desktop drive is listed, and I can't get the GO drive to come up at all.Seagate has not responded to my three emails. Any ideas on this? Win 7 Won't recognize 2 Seatgate FreeAgent Drives I have been using a Seagate FreeAgent 340 GB desktop hard drive. Recently I bought a Seagate FreeAgent GO drive. My computer will recognize and... » Read More Win 7 Won't recognize 2 Seatgate FreeAgent Drives I have been using a Seagate FreeAgent 340 GB desktop hard drive. Recently I bought a Seagate FreeAgent GO drive. My computer will recognize and list only one of the two drives. If I unplug the desktop before I boot, then the portable Go drive is listed. If I leave the desktop drive plugged in and boot up, then only the desktop drive is listed, and I can't get the GO drive to come up at all.Seagate has not responded to my three emails. Any ideas on this? « Show Less
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I had a similar problem on Windows 7 after using a USB portable drive on a trip with my XP laptop. I plugged it into my Win7 desktop and the device was recognized, but did not come up with a drive letter. Using the control panel disk manager, I found and error message that it was offline because of some kind of a resource conflict with another drive. I was able to correct the problem by using a right click in the disk manager to put it online. I think this is a Win7 bug, not a problem with the drive.
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I have no problems with windows 7 either at startup or plugging in while windows 7 is running.
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Thanks for solution & will try, but I need to say it is not anything to do with windows 7, Because my XP machine also cannot see it!
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That is good to know! I bought this yesterday to transfer stuff from my Vista computer here to my Windows 7 laptop at our second home. Should have checked yesterday before coming back home, but still... :D
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It wasn't viewable in any OS I tried all three,But the last solution here worked as I had to make new partition and quick format it and in this way it also gave it a drive letter.I did this on an XP machine and Now it worked.
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I fixed this problem in 10 seconds:1. Open Device Manager2. The Free Agent Drive is probably listed under Storage Volumes and 'Unknown Device'3. Right click on the 'Unknown Volume' and select 'Properties'4. Click on the 'Driver' tab and select 'Uninstall'.5. Unplug the USB cable from the back of your FreeAgent drive -wait a few seconds - and plug it back in.6. Voila - you should be up and running.After jerking around with this problem for two hours and reading tons of nonsense in various posts - none of which worked, the process described above solved my problem. I fixed this problem in 10 seconds:1. Open Device Manager2. The Free Agent Drive is probably listed under Storage Volumes and 'Unknown Device'3. Right click on the 'Unknown Volume' and select 'Properties'4. Click on the 'Driver' tab and select 'Uninstall'.5. Unplug the USB cable from the back of your FreeAgent drive -wait a few seconds - and plug it back in.6. Voila - you should be up and running.After jerking around with this problem for two hours and reading tons of nonsense in various posts - none of which worked, the process... » Read More I fixed this problem in 10 seconds:1. Open Device Manager2. The Free Agent Drive is probably listed under Storage Volumes and 'Unknown Device'3. Right click on the 'Unknown Volume' and select 'Properties'4. Click on the 'Driver' tab and select 'Uninstall'.5. Unplug the USB cable from the back of your FreeAgent drive -wait a few seconds - and plug it back in.6. Voila - you should be up and running.After jerking around with this problem for two hours and reading tons of nonsense in various posts - none of which worked, the process described above solved my problem. « Show Less
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That is so ridiculous that you would even have to go through all of that to get it to work. I am not a techie and do not enjoy wasting my time trouble shooting all this stuff. I just need an extenrnal hardrive for my windows 7 64 bit computer. Does it have to be this difficult to get that? Can anybody help me with this?
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The 1st unit we purchased about a year ago did the exact same thing! It was broken. Sent it back and got new one that worked fine. I am betting yours is defective too. We now have 4 of these units setup and they work great. One note is that the 1st drive can't seem to be over 1.5 tb to work correctly with our windows systems. Some sorry of windows problem. So we setup drive 1 as 1.5tb & the other 3 drives are 3tb each.
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Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..
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No. mSATA is different than SATA. Here are the specs for your PC, Hard Disk Drive7 * 320GB (5400RPM) using two Serial ATA hard disk drives; o Primary + Secondary drive: 160GB + 160GB
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Are you sure that you used the USB cable correctly? You need to plug both USB cables to your computer for the drive to work. One would only provide power, and the other would be used to transfer DATA, neither one can work on its own. As a troubleshooting step, try to use a drive in the enclosure that you know for sure is not dead, if that one works, and the other one is still giving you problems, then it might be a problem in the drive itself but not the enclosure. However, if the drive that you know is working well, still doesn't show up on the computer, then it might be a problem in the enclosure. Hope this helps!
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I use four Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDDs which can be found here: Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001) . It has been running non-stop for nearly a year with no issues.
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You did not say what operating system you have so I do not know how old, also if you replacing or adding this drive to your system, so I have to guess on these points. If it is a newer system from dell you have anywhere from a 500gb to a 1 tb drive installed from Dell, Most dell computer do have al least 1 extra dive location so you can add a drive. As for the Seagate brand it makes no difference what brand drive you install in your computer only that it be formatted for the OS you are going to use so it can be seen and read and write to. I hope this answers your question.
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I don't think they HAVE to be identical, but I think it is good policy to at least make sure that they are all the same size. The smallest disk in the set will cause the system to ignore any space on other volumes that go beyond that smaller size. To stick a 500GB drive in a box that has three other larger drives should give you a 2 TB box (4 X 500). Seagate might be unhappy about this, but if you stick a WD drive in their box the system should be able to make it go. The drive is compatible with SATA or it isn't, right? Warranty is another matter. That WD drive would almost certainly void your waranty. But if the box is under warranty, they should give you the correct replacement drive,
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I apologize for such delayed reply as I missed to see your email for so long! I have seagate free-agent Dockstar connected to my Seagate 3TB Backup Plus Desktop drive and network adapter. I am able to backup regularly from my desktop and I am able to see my backup drive from Windows explorer.
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I hate to say this but I was never able to get my GoFlex to work. Seagate exchanged it for another one and it wouldn't connect to my network either. I took it back and bought a WD wireless and it connected and worked just as it was supposed to.
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I had exactly the same situation and the same mSata drive. It would not work. I contacted the seller and they have sent a replacement board (not the entire enclosure). I have not got round to trying it yet since the mSata is now in my laptop. Suggest you contact the seller.
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I'm having a problem with a 3TB drive... shows up as 2.2TB and 800GB. Refer to http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html
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well i can answer the first part of the question it has two drive one is main and the other is a back up 750gb for both hard drive, and for the second part idk i can answer it completely but ill give it a try, the hard drive is not original, it uses other hard drive from other brand to save price. i hope i answer your question. ( BY THE WAY IM USING THIS COMPUTER RIGHT NOW LOL!!!)
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It's the same connection as a 2tb, it's SATA3, any windows 7 or 8 will compatible, the major spec you have to look is your motherboard, it has to be a uefi compatible board to go beyond the 2tb limit, if it's a recent motherboard it probably is, just check your manufacturer and model to be 100%. Search for: 3tb and uefi motherboards.Hope this helps
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did you try one drive at a time? I had the same problem with my drives because they had a signature collision. Had to manually change the signature of one of them. Also, the unit says it will handle 6TB. Not sure it that means 6TB total or will it recognize all 12TB for you.
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Yes it will work, the drive is exceptional faster than a standard, the only flaw I had seen, With Windows 7, or the bios at first instal it confused my D drive as the primary rather than the C, So I had to reformat and reinstall, the second time was all good though. I like it, It works great for me, I can hear windows booting even before my screen comes up after bios boot. Considering the price v/s solid state, I will get me another hybrid. You can never go wrong with Seagate quality anyways, that is why banks prefer Seagate in there PC's.
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Will this work for a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 1 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive STAC1000103