SeagateFree Agent Go 120 G.B external portable hard drive When I connect that in to my lap top (HP Pavilion) windows can recognize the hard drive and once I connect that same one in to my desktop windows doesn't recognize and both of operating systems are XP. I shall be grateful; any body can assist me to get it done - Tks - Piyal E - mail: [email protected]

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The SimpleTech SimpleDrive Portable external hard drive features a USB 2.0 interface for speed and plug-and-play connectivity. The hard drive is USB -powered, so no extra power supply is needed.

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you've probably popped it smell the connections for the smell of burning,check the fuse in the plug should be 5Amp,
there easy to blow, if you don't get the USB plugged in the right way first time it sparks & shorts the ports out on the computer & if you've got the hard drive plugged in & switched on before you plug the USB in then it shorts the drive out as well.
take it back to the shop & tell them two replace it.if they won't then open the unit & take out the drive because that will still work & sell it on e-bay or put it in a desktop pc.

if u dont want to bootup with external HD goto bios under boot device property first boot for {make it system intarnal HD}

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

try using another usb cable and another usb slot on your computer. the drive is not recieving enough power from ther computer.

check if you have another drive which has the same alphabet as your external drive, if so then go to disk management and change the name of the disk.

Unfortuntly, this caused the drives power source to be exceded and damage the drive or circut board. If you know someone that knows computer well, have them or yourself take the hard drive out and manually connect the driver to a computer and extract your data, if the drive is not damage that is, there is know way to know for sure until you try to connect to a PC directly. Or, purchas another USB external housing.

first it has to be formated to work with it, use manage by right click on my computer then select disk managment from left pane

There is no drive letter assigned to it.

The drive is dying. If it is still under warranty, call Maxtor for a replacement.