My Seagate Replica 500GB drives will suddenly start blinking constantly. There is no activity on it. If I unplug it and plug it in again, Windows Vista 64bit says it's installing the drivers and then the Seagate software wants me to format it. If I reboot, all my data is intact, but it starts blinking again. (I've disabled the automatic backup.)

SOURCE: Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive 500GB not recognising directory tree

Its the rubbish software that Seagate have bundled with their drive which will not allow you to backup the system folders. Solution is to use another backup utility, a google search will quickly locate numerous FREE software products which will alow you to copy anything. Unfortunately when you start googling about this drive you may be quite distressed about your purchase, as i have been :( Problems lay ahead with this drive due to inadequate cooling.....

SOURCE: Connecting my Seagate 500GB USB drive reboots PC continuously.

update the firmware from seagate official,sir,any problem u can contact with me,thanks [email protected]

TEKUSER

• 86 Answers
• Posted on Jun 25, 2009

SOURCE: seagate 500gb firmware probleb

Use some partition manager to format and crate partition on your disk, use this one it´s free and very good.

http://www.easeus-software.com/download/epm.zip


Hope this help

Stan

• 748 Answers
• Posted on Oct 25, 2009

SOURCE: I have just purchased a Seagate 500GB Desktop hard drive

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).

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