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I've been using my Seagate FreeAgent Go external drive for 6 months already and I have store many files like music, pictures, ms office files, etc. If I want to see the files stored in this drive, I just click the computer and then open this drive and there I see the files but just this day when i plug-in in the any PCs and laptops' usb port, a "USB Found New Hardware" flashed and the window "Found New Hardware Wizard" is popped up and asked me to insert the installation software CD. I purchased this hardware without the said CD. How can I recover the files stored in this drive. Please help me. Thanks
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You could try to use file recovery tools like File Scavenger or similar. If at fall moment Hard Drive was ON, then there is bigger chance that information will be unrecoverable because of damage of Hard Drive disc surface. If data is very important like work data (MS Office files and so on) I would suggest to hand this item to local data recovery center. It might be costly but if data is essential then no doubt it is worth to try.
Assuming you are using a Windows operating system, you can just plug it into your computer's USB ports, and the computer will recognise it as another hard drive.
Instructions: Double-click on 'My Computer' and take note of what drive letters are there (C:, D:, etc.) before you plug in the Seagate Freeagent. Plug in the Seagate Freeagent. You'll see the new drive, likely E: or F: (depending on what is already there before you plugged in the Seagate Freeagent) Double-click on the new drive, and it'll open up and you'll see the files stored on that drive. You can drag and drop files and save to this drive like any other folder on your computer.
you will need to run a server edition operating system and set the drive you have now [C:]/DEV to what ever second backup you want to have EX: [D:] [E:] etc.
not possible to automate unless you have a server running. You could always just back up to the seagate and set scheduled tasks in windows to every (week, month, etc) to back up the entire folder of your I-tunes every so often.
which files.... if you have "show system files" selected in your folder options in your operating system it still won't let you open them as that is it's way of preventing you from deleting or changing them
The problem is because Mac cannot write to NTFS formatted drives. You will have to reformat the drive in Mac. You will loose all the data :( Here is a link for the how to:
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