Windows 98 driver for FreeAgent

Try this:

1. Turn off the power supply to the hard drive.
2. Turn off your PC/laptop.
3. Connect the hard drive to the PC/laptop.
4. Turn on both devices.

It worked with mine.


You could also try installing Seagate Manager which can check for errors on the drive.

Switch off and on your Freeagent, that should cause a driver to be loaded. If no change reset your Laptop. You should also upgrade to Windows 10, since WINDOWS 7 IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.

It must be some driver problem.Try updating drivers through windows update or you can also try installing latest service pack for Windows 2003 Server.It will definitely solve your problem.

Windows 7 probably don't recognize it. keep an eye out for it at the manufactor website, for a driver. Windows 7 is turning out to be like windows vista

There is software preloaded on the disk. If you have AutoPlay turned off in your system, it won't start automatically when you connect the drive. Just go to MyComputer and open the drive and you will find a setup file there to install the backup software (I think it's called Launch.exe).

Somehow i tried to format and it was formatted. took pretty long time as 1 terabyte. i thought all is ok as the drive was accessible. Just to double check, i scanned the drive thorugh the seagate manager and it got stuck on 10% for few seconds and then said that the hard disk is faulty and should be immediately returned if under warranty. and to confirm it also gave me read errors http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/

so i'm giving it to seagate service centre as it probably has physical faults, bad sectors. and someone told me that 1TB hard drives are not stable.

u can see the news that the st drive has many bugs,and which cannot be detected by the pc is the most popular one,so u can update the firmware from seagate official and if still cannot repair,u can go back to me,[email protected]

go get a external drive enclosure from computer supplier
compusa
best buy
circuitcity

hi there have you tried to boot to bios and selecting the device from there and save and reboot and see what happnes

go to seagate.com and type drivers in serach box , select your operating system and download and install the drivers.