Win 7 Won't recognize 2 Seatgate FreeAgent Drives: Any ideas on this?
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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'm not sure. That might be needed. I still haven't been able to get mine to work in either drive yet.
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Try another drive. If it recognizes a different drive, it is not an issue with the adapter and is likely a bad drive.
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None but its independent of the os so it should function like any other jump drive
45931
It should recognize is, there should be an updated drive to view it. Check the Seagate website for that.
1616924
There's two types of drives for these you may want to check what you have before ordering
2203451
I only have windows 7. But had a similar problem with a western digital USB drive. I returned the drive & problem was solved.
1687481
I put in a drive with data on it and windows wouldn't recognize it unless I formatted it first. Works fine after formatting, but I had to backup all of my data before using the drive.
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I called the Drive Company and gave them my model number. You can find their number on their website.
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Yes, the system I was using already had Win 7 with the original drive not working. I didn't have any issue replacing this drive under Win 7 at all. The OS recognized the drive right away. Hope this helps!
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With the USB connection it will see both drives. If you use eSATA, you can see only one.
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Only 1 drive can be recognized at a time. You can fill one then remove it and attach another. I use a USB switch which only powers one port at a time. This allows me to plug in multiple external disc at a time and switch back and forth as needed.
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I do not have an answer to your problem, but with both seagate and WD drives I just attached the drive enclosure and the hard drives were recognized. I am using Win7 64
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I just put a 3TB Seagate drive in one of these and it worked. One of my laptops had a weird issue, but other machines did not. TDMSERVICE.EXE consumed massive amounts of RAM (3+GB) a few times before it acted normal. A different laptop of the same make/model did not have the same problem. That first laptop has issues adding hardware anyways, so I don't think it's a combination of the enclosure and drive.
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call the company....they are very helpful or email them. I own two of their drives and have been very happy
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Stupid Me - I am running a PATA Samsung drive init right now. So yes it does both!
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I dont know since I only tried one drive in non RAID mode but it will boot windows from the one drive