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My seagate 500gb sata drive will only format to 128gb on my intel d915pgn motherboard. I installed the drive to an external usb 2.0 enclosure and it formatted fine. Removed the formatted drive and installed it to the motherboard sata port and windows 2000 says the drive is not formatted.
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Yes just fixed mine. Went to radio shack bought a gigaware sata 3.5 external enclosure.
Took the harddrive out of old enclosure. pryed off external alluminum case to expose a panel that sticks out to the side where the broken usb plug went. Wiggled that off then placed in new enclosure fits good. secured with old screws. plugged it in and it works great. The new usb plug is much sturdier. The external case cost me about $40.00 and some change but Im glad i retreaved my data. I will never buy another seagate. Hope this helps...Alan
The disk-drive inside the enclosure is "dying".
If the warranty still is valid, exercise the warranty to get it replaced, at minimal cost to you.
If the warranty has expired, open the enclosure, remove the disk-drive, and take the disk-drive to a computer-store. Buy a new, compatible, drive, and then "transplant" it into the enclosure, to "revive" your external file-storage appliance.
An external storage-device has four major components:
* the USB cable
* the power-adapter
* the disk-drive inside the enclosure
* the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.
One of these components has failed.
Try a different USB cable.
Try connecting to a different USB port on your computer.
Try connecting to a USB port on a different computer.
Take a "multi-meter" and measure both the voltage and amperage output from the AC adapter, and compare with the specifications on the label on the adapter.
Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and then connect it as a "slave" disk-drive in a desktop computer, to see if it works at all.
Purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.
Get the part-number and serial-number from the label on your disk-drive, and access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status", to see if they will replace the device, at minimal cost to you.
Check drive for partitions. Also, you can use a program such as Seagate DiskWizard to format and setup for loading. That program is available from Seagate's web site.
If you cannot get the USB port fixed you can take the drive out of the inclosure and install it as a second drive in another computer that has SATA capability to get the data off of it. You can always put it back in if you can get the enclosure repaired.
Ok, you didn't say if the drive had data or not? Anyway, if it is a drive with no data etc, you will first need to Initialize, & Format the drive before use. Is there any way you can connect it up to an "Internal" or "External" SATA port, & "See" if the drive is recognized, then at least you know the drive is OK.. Also try another USB port if available. If you know it is OK, then go to device manager and Uninstall the entire USB layer, reboot, it will re-install the USB again, with default settings, it NOW may be "Seen".
Most of these external hard drives are just regular old 3.5" or 2.5" hard drives in some sexy looking enclosure. Hopefully just the power supply to the drive overheated and did not do any damage to your data.
Disconnect the unit from the mains (duh!) and carefully disassemble the unit until you can get at the drive itself. Disconnect the drive, and see if it is an EIDE or SATA drive. Again, the drive itself is going to look a lot like one your've seen inside your computer because in 99% of cases it is the same thing.
Purchase another external enclosure for the proper type of interface (SATA or EIDE), or , if there is room in the PC itself, actually install the drive in your PC as an auxiliary drive.
a hard drive (usually a standard IDE or SATA drive), and
an enclosure
The enclosure is the box containing the drive. It also includes an interface to convert the data from the IDE or SATA interface on the drive to a USB (2) signal. Some enclosures include and internal power supply. The Freeagent has the power supply externally.
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