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 sure it depends on your operating system, but on Windows 7, the operating system either already had the drivers or downloaded them without any work from me.
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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 called the Drive Company and gave them my model number. You can find their number on their website.
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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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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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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 can't speak to a specific drive but it works for all of my data and data drives
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Thanks for replying. I suspected it was the driver from HP. I'll give this a shot.
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I would compare this drive to the current one you own. If the size or type of connector is different then that it's where your problem lies
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Windows 7 will except this devise!,drivers included, what you might need to do is use another usb cord so that windows 7 will recognize this devise. sometimes it's the usb cord!
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I'm not sure. I had two installled already and I have not been able to resove the problem.
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Drivers for this device are supplied by Microsoft Windows 7 update. The drivers should automatically be installed when Windows 7 recognizes the newly installed drive. If Windows incorrectly identifies the drive, try uninstalling the mislabeled drive in the 'Device Manager' and restart the computer. Windows should then detect the new drive and automatically install the correct driver.
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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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Thank you. So I ordered the drive and followed instructions for installing but it is not recognized by Windows 7 and the trouble shooting guide is useless. Then I tried it on a laptop running Vista and it started installing but finally gave up saying to contact the manufacturer. This is the 3rd time I have bought an item based on information from persons who claim to own the product that turned out to be a big mistake
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Yes, that is what we have ours connected to. You may have to reformat the drive by using disk utilities.
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while I don' t have a clear cut answer, I do have one that works. See if it at least is at least recognized in device manager under Windows' control panel. If it is, you might right click on properties and have windows look for a new driver on the net. You might want.to reformat it under fat32 or NTFS....