How do i transfer data from go flex free agent seagate hard drive back to my dell computer. I need simply instructions please. Had to send my dell back with hardware problem and copy all data onto seagate go flex before I sent this off. now I want to reinstall all data back onto the dell laptop. any helpful advice greatly appreciated. Many thanks Paula Renouf

Probably, the new operating system cannot recognize your Seagate external hard drive. You can connect the Seagate external hard drive to another computer to copy data to another device. If the problem still exists, you might need to perform data recovery. You can free download the data recovery software: http://www.icare-recovery.com/seagate-recovery/seagate-external-cannot-be-recognized.html

The connection will be the same (desktop or laptop, USB 2.0/3.0). Find an free USB Type A port on your computer. Connect the appropriate end of the USB cable to the Seagate hard drive and the other end to the computer's USB port. If you do not have any free USB ports, then you will need to get a USB hub or add a USB card to the desktop. You may need a powered USB 2.0 hub to ensure that the external drive works properly. (Warning: not all hubs are sold with the power adapter. Hard drives that loose power are often at risk of losing data.)

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells

You can find Seagate support here

Sounds like the enclosure has a problem. If this is one of those free agent go flex drives with the removable USB to Sata interface you might try getting another drive like it and borrow the interface from that drive when you need to use this one. That's something I have to do now because one of my interfaces died also.




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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

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

Hi,
It looks like its just the ac-adapter that is dead.
I would contact the store you bought the harddrive, and ask if they just can send you a new ac-adapter.
Btw backup means that you have saved your data 2 places.
Best regard -r0lfi

Try connecting it to another computer. If you can see your data then back it up etc.
After you have recovered your data connect it to your computer, from Disk Manager, remove the partition, recreate it again and then format the drive, hopefully your external drive will be operational again.
There is a possibility that the hard disk has died and you will have lost your data. If you are desparate, hard drive data recovery companies charge an arm and a leg to recover data from dead drives.

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

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?