20 Most Recent Seagate Free Agent Go Small 12 GB USB External HD ST600121GSA1E1-RK USB 2.0 Hard Drive - Page 2 Questions & Answers

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.

shut down the PC. Restart it and reconnect the Seagate. The HDD should Work .

Download "Testdisk & PhotoRec 6.10" from www.download.cnet.com
and follow the instructions. TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table).
Once you install the program, you can find step-by-step instructions in google. This program is really easy to use and will fix your hdd.

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If you can remove the hard drives and use a usb interface to connect them then software like filescavanger will recover files providing the hard spins up ok.

I doubt that iTunes really moved/reorganized files on your computer.

iTunest may have created its own "Table Of Contents", presenting a "view" of all your files.

Open "My Computer" and open your external hard-drive.
The files should be in "your" order.

Open "My Documents". Open "My Music".
The files should be in "your" order.


If iTunes really did "reorganize" your files, there's no way to "go back", because "Windows System Restore" does not automatically created time-stamped backups of your 'My Documents' folder (nor of any external disk-drive -- where would it put that much data???).

Double click on My Computer expand the "C" drive / minimise and simply drag from one drive to the other.

Your installed music library in your external hard drive might not be supported by your media center on your new laptop, try to convert the files where the software are supported by your media player. try convert Master software, you can download it free then convert your files

If your Seagate is under one year old it is under warranty. Return it as it is toast.

You do not say whether the HDD ever worked.

If it did, and stopped, chances are that the internal HD is damaged, or the motor performances degraded and it now requiring a higher current than the USB port can deliver.

Try plugging it on a different USB port or, better yet, into an externally powered USB hub. There are also special cables which plug two USB ports into one and deliver double current to the appliance.

As a last resort, it might be possible to recover it by extracting it from its enclosure and connecting to a desktop PC via a 3.5-to-2.5 inch HD adapter.

In all cases, unless it never worked on that PC (which means that the problem might be in that PC's USB port), I'd strongly suggest to back up all data on another disk.

Your Mac would have formatted the Seagate drive as HFS+ (journaled) format. If you have access to a Mac, copy your data off the Seagate to any Mac, then use your PC to reformat the Seagate drive in FAT32 format. Macs recognize FAT32 format, and can store data in it, but can't create the format. The Mac holding your data can store it on the Seagate in the FAT32 format, and you can then copy the files to your PC. Hope this helps.

There's not much troubelshooting you can do with a failed external disk. power off PC and hd and then disconnect all cables, wait 30 secs, power the PC on, let it boot to the OS, power the hard drive on and then connect. If the drive shows up but you still cannot access it or get weird property readings, it generally means the hd controller has failed. If the data's worth more than $1000, you can take it to a data recovery group like Ontrak or Cherry Systems, but otherwise, just get a new hd and restore whatever backups you have.

try connecting to some other computer or laptop. If it is still not able to connect then call some technician

Is the hard drive a USB external device?
Does the hard drive spin up at all or does it make clicking sounds?
If the hard drive spins it may not be faulty, it may be a faulty USB hard drive adapter case.
Put the hard drive in another USB hard drive adapter and connect it to a computer, if it still doesn't work then the hard drive has died.

try to connect it to other computer, if it doesn't help, hdd is probably broken. If you disassemble, you will find internal hard drive, which you can try to connect to desktop PC to save your data, or look up for some data recovery company

no screws just pinch sides and pull apart use a tool if you have to I got mine apart with use my hands and a pin

If you are like me I'm never buying one of these again. Nothing but problems with it.

I had the same issue. I went into the bios and disabled USB Legacy support. This seemed to have fixed my issue. But I havent tested extensively.

What do you want to do?
If its a pop-up from windows, just choose
"Open folder to view files using Windows Explorer"
If you want to see the contents, OR just open a new windows explorer
and find a new drive except your local drive. Sometimes
it just called "removable disk".
You have to be specific :)

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