Freeagent my laptop restarted by itself the message popped up saying error with e drive. and now it only shows c drive tho the free agent still turns on and sounds like it is starting up but gets not futher also the lights are on on the freeagent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjllfIpb9UE

this will show you how to open up a free agent to disassemble

hope it helps

Hi,
Have you tried uninstalling your seagate free agent software, restarting your computer and installing it again?

It sounds almost like 2 things are happening,

1. The drive itself it going out or the board inside that is connected to the drive is bad.

2. or the drive is not getting enough power through the USB ports (or too much maybe?)

I have only encountered the beeping issue on my free agent 160GB when it was not getting enough power to spin up the platters.

If you still have warranty on it. I would HIGHLY recommend you call western digital about it.

First make sure that you have a bootable Windows Vista installation DVD, as you will be unable to use your computer if you don’t. Next, download the GParted Live CD and burn it to cd.
Boot off the GParted cd, and you will see your hard drives in the drop-down list. The first drive is typically your boot drive, but you can check the Flags column to make sure.


Next you’ll need to right-click on the partition and choose Resize/Move from the menu.


Now you can either use the New Size textbox, or just click and drag the partition to make it smaller (or bigger). When you are done, click the Resize/Move button.This doesn’t immediately apply the changes, though. You can make other changes to your partitions and then when you are finished click the Apply button.Depending on the amount of data and the speed of your computer, it can take quite a while to resize the partitions. On my computer it took more than 30 minutes.


Once it’s done, quit, remove the live cd and then reboot your computer. Unless you are very lucky, you’ll be greeted with this horrible error message saying “Windows Failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.”
Hope this helps!

format backup drive and repartition to a single partition. do not backup programs unless you have clone disk.

Its a VIRUS problem..
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software driver bug , or overheat , most likely software driver conflict...

it's one of those things where you have to go over your computer with a fine toothed comb to find the problem.

it could be as simple as reloading windows and taking things step by step to see if the issue happens again and can be repeated.

and remember if it's not hebrew it's a lie :-> shalom

just reading this forum I think I have bought a total POS. Damn! wich i would have read this first. This boat anchor has all of my backup on it, is only a month old and is now junk. What is this the 3rd world's way of collecting all of our data when we return them?

i have the same problem, would a new enclosure work?

the problem of the first user (weasel79)is simple...
just do this, hope works...k
Right click on MY COMPUTER and select PROPERTIES from that select the SYSTEM RESTORE tab and tick the TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE ON ALL DRIVES tab and click apply and then ok and then restart your pc, well that problem is fixed...

second user..(Dale33)
do 1 thing select properties from My Computer then select Manage.. from the left column select DISK MANAGEMENT and see weather your disk is detected...
if yes then allign it a driver letter ~!! hope that helped...

the 3rd user also do the thing done by second user ok...
if any problems then plz inform me ill there to help !