External hard disk

SOURCE: Seagate External Hard Drive powers down after being idle.

If you load the Free Agent Software, there is a utility for setting the power saving. You can set it to a number of different times including never. The default is 15 minutes. I think this is what you are experiencing. The settings are in the Utilities tab.

SOURCE: i havea seagate 500gb external hard disk, when i connect it wth t

i TOO had a similar problem. I ve connected my HDD to my desktop pc first. When it got detected . I partitioned it and started using by connecting it to the laptop..
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SOURCE: I cannot see my free agent external drive

Thanks for your responses...

I've pretty much decided that it must be a hardware problem within the harddrive itself...Can anyone lead me in the right direction to maybe take out the harddrive to put into another external shell in order to hopefully recover my data? Again I'm using a Seagate Freeagent Desktop 500GB external harddrive.

SOURCE: seagate 50gb external drive - not recog on computer

It could be your USB or firewire. i had a problem with my h drive and now i'm using a ps3 usb cable instead

SOURCE: Data Recovery from Seagate Desktop Expansion 500GB External Hard

This is a solution I have used in the past and it has worked. It's a Seagate Recover utility for end users.
https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx

If the data is absolutley critical and very valuable, you can send it to Seagate and they are very good at recovery as well. It gets a little pricey at $800, but I too have had to use that as well for mission critical data I could not afford to lose.

https://services.seagate.com/consumer_standard_services.aspx