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I am having Seagate free agent 500Gb external drive, once i connect with my laptop after some time the light indicator illuminates and stablized. once u go my computer it is showing LOCAL DRIVE. but i am able to open or go inside.it get held up there i have very precious data. Pl help me

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You can try some data recovery software. You can see
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asoftech-Data-Recovery/290956907592436?sk=info
It tells the steps how to perform data recovery.

If above does not work, you may have to format the hard drive (use quick format), and then use above mentioned software to scan again the hard drive and recover your files.

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Act smart download a good data recovery tool like "Kernel for FAT and NTFS" from the following url http://www.windowsdatarecovery.com/
and scan the drive using this software for recovering your precious data before its too late

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From your description it appears that your drive is failing. You can check if there are problems with the drive using the free trial version of http://www.hdtune.com/

If it checks out ok then you can try to recover your data with Recuva it's free http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Or if you need data recovery help this a good choice for low cost and fast data recovery. All data recovery work is performed remotely over the Internet from a boot cd that you download and the best part is they just ask for donations: http://FreeDataRecovery.us

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