I got a Free Agent Go 500GB usb external drive. I have mac10.5.8 OS, It connect but not able to copy anything.what to do?

if you still can see files on the Hard disk from MAC, then the reason of being unabe to explore your file from MS windows is that your hard was initialized by MAC with a format that windows cannot read.
move your data from external hard disk to your MAC then format your hard disk from windows OS with FAT32 format .this format is readable on both MAC and WINDOWS

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

attach the seagate open windows explorer click on my computer if you can see this seagate free agent select the files you want to transfer right click copy navigate to the seagate select it then right click paste or select the files right click send to seagate
hope this helps

First, copy all of the data from the drive to another as a backup.

Now the drive already has a partition or you would not be able to store data on it. Therefore, you could only be speaking about dividing it into multiple partitions.

Therefore you delete the exisiting partition and then create smaller partitions. In Windows you will be limited to 4-partitions.

I hope this helps.

For a MAC to use an external Hard drive, the hard drive has to be formatted FAT32 file system. That is the only file system MAC sees.

Try using the device on another PC & see if it works. if it does then you have a issue with your PC. whast the OS you are using? also try another USB port.

DO NOT buy a Seagate freeagent drive under any condition if it comes as a gift return it or re-gift to some one you don't like. Like so many others my 500GB external drive just quit working. Has only been plugged in about 6 times and then back into a cabinet to keep safe. In 10 years between 2 workstations 3 laptops and 4 external drives. The only drives that have ever gone bad are the Seagates and newer Maxators. I still have 4 Western digital drives that still work and get used in an external case for back up. They have never failed. Seagate should be responsible for data time and mental anguish.

465.66 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 499,998,617,764 bytes. The problem is the definition of gigabytes.

Click on the drive once so it is highlighted. then choose GET INFO or press APPLE key plus the I key ( APPLE + I ) hold those 2 keys down and you will get a small dialog box with the drives information. Notice to see if the drive is locked ( which with a user password ) you can deselect, or see if the drive is formatted MS-DOS. If the drive is formatted NTFS, you should be abled to copy from but not copy to. YOu may need to copy the entire drive to a OS extended or MS-DOS formatted drive.

Hi, This site provides step by step instruction > http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=141&navid=54&itemid=23132 Hope this be of some help. Good luck and kind regards.