Is it a portable External drive ?
If it is the type with a 2.5" spinning disc in it, I would not use that in a car if you paid me a fortune.
They can withstand large shock when they are not 'running'
However when 'running', even a small bump (or bump in the road), can allow the floating heads to hit the surface of the spinning drive platters, and it may never work again.
One alternative is to -
Get a portable SSD (Solid State Drive), as they have no moving parts, and should let you drive over footpaths, when running.
Or use a USB stick like you used to.
Hope this helps,
Rob
No it's not one you can put discs in it's like one you can back stuff up on your laptop. Cheers though
Sorry when I said spinning disc, I mean a normal 2.5" drive. When reading/writing to those drives, there are spinning platters inside the sealed drive.
I avoid portable external drives (the ones that can fit inside a shirt pocket) as they are extremely sensitive to bumps or movement when they are in use.
The new (but still hard to find) portable SSD drives, have no moving parts, and can tolerate hard bumps/movement
Here is a link to a 128GB SSD portable drive, that can withstand shocks -http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TRANSCEND-SSD...
Ahh ok then cheers
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Here is a link to Seagate's website Download area. All manuals should be available for download from there: MANUAL
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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.
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If the laptop is also XP, the drive should be recognized without problems. Sometimes this may not happen if the disk is unusually partitioned (could happen if you manually dual-booted it with Linux, for example). Verify the enclosure is working properly and has enough power supplied to, and that it appears in Device Manager. If all this applies, the enclosure must be considered working and the problem might be in the partitioning or disk access.
In XP Pro, do Start > Run Command > DISKMGMT.MSC and press OK. See whether the disk appears (if it doesn't, it's the enclosure, or its drivers - or the disk was dying and is now dead, but that's not very likely), select the NTFS or FAT32 partition - ignore any others - right click and mount the unit as drive, say, G.
If it doesn't work but the partition is found, you may need a more powerful tool such as Paragon Partition Manager.
See also here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B307889&x=12&y=12
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Hello
Yes, you can leave the device plugged in, you do not need to unplug it if you turn off the computer, do remember to safely remove when you plug it out though.
Kind regards
Andrea
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have you ever found a solution? i have the same problem with my seagate barracuda 7200.11 1,5TB
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