Seagate FreeAgent or OWC Neptune for backing up?
Simple opinion question: Which would you buy?
1. Seagate Freeagent Xtreme on sale at Buy.com for $89.99
or
2. OWC Neptune (Hitachi mechanism) for $97.99 (+~$5 shipping)
Don't care about USB or SATA, just looking for the best deal for backing up 250G internal with TimeMachine.
So, what do you think?
Storyboy wrote:
Don't care about USB or SATA, just looking for the best deal for backing up 250G internal with TimeMachine.
You might. If you have a FireWire port, get a F/W drive. F/W 800, if you have it, is of course better than F/W 400. F/W 400 may be slightly faster than USB, in theory, but in practice it's often slower and less reliable.
If USB, get one with it's own power supply. Taking power from your USB port can be "iffy."
And your TM drive should be 2-3 times the size of what it's backing-up (the data on your internal HD). That varies greatly, of course, depending on how you use your Mac.
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB Disconnects Unexpectedly during Time Machine backups
I have a 20" 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Early 2008) iMac with 4GB Ram. A few days ago I finally took the time to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I have 3 Seagate external drives connected to the iMac (2 connected directly and one through a powered hub - all via USB). I use one of the external drives, a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex named TARDIS for my Time Machine backups. This has been running fine for quite a while. After the upgrade to Mavericks I started seeing it disconnect unexpectedly. There were no power fluctuations, the cord was not bumped, and this had never happened prior to the upgrade.
I searched these boards and found several people having issues with drives disconnecting after upgrading and followed suggestions regarding resetting the pram which I did to no effect, a suggestion to delete the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist preferences file which I did, also to no effect. Finally, knowing that I didn't have anything irreplaceable on the existing Time Machine backups, I re-formatted the drive - this also had no effect. Through this process I discovereed that the disconnects were always happening while Time Machine was trying to run a backup. It would get to about 20 megabytes backed up and then just sit there until it gave me the drive was improperly disconnected message.
I was getting really frustrated at this point. I read something somewhere about issues with the main drive causing errors with Time Machine (not sure the details at this point) and so I did a Verify Disk on my internal system drive. It did find some issues so I followed the instructions to repair them which worked fine. I also ran the verify on the Time Machine drive which did not discover any issues.
I reformatted the drive again, giving it a different name (Backup). I set up Time Machine again to backup to the newly named drive. It was backing up properly. I thought I had finally gotten it into a working state. I thought maybe there was a trace of the old drive name somewhere that was causing the issue. The backup finished successfully. All was good. Until the next time Time Machine started to run when it again stalled before disconnecting.
I reformatted the drive one more time, giving it yet another new name (Delorean) and have not set up Time Machine. If I don't run Time Machine, the drive does not suffer issues with disconnecting. I have tried copying a large file to the drive to see if some I/O would trigger a disconnect and I had no problems. I plan to run a few more tests like this but so far it has been connected for more than 24 hours and has not disconnected itself. This to me suggests it is something to do with Time Machine running under Mavericks. I don't have another Mac that I can try running Time Machine on to verify that this is an issue caused by Mavericks but that seems to be the case.
Any ideas?its a dying SATA bridge card, extremely common issue.
read all about it here:
Your dead external hard drive is likely fine! Great hope for your 'faulty' external HD
I really wish people would learn about the A #1 issue that affects external HD, its a 50 cent part that makes it seem their ext. HD has failed / failing.
Thousands of people every day experience what at first seems that their external USB or Thunderbolt HD, either 2.5" portable or 3.5" desktop model is dying, is dead, or all hope is lost for it. Good news is that you have roughly a greater than 50-60% chance that your external hard drive is perfectly fine!
The great news at the end of the tunnel of an apparently failed or failing external hard drive.
When checked on another computer, and with no need for spending money on data extraction expertise or software, the very likely case is that your external USB or thunderbolt HD is in fact fine, and merely the card interface, or SATA bridge card has failed or is failing. Keeping a HD dock around handy, or cheaper still a $20 hard drive enclosure or a SATA to USB connector can be a real life saver in getting your drive back to use, when the drive itself is fine, and merely its interface card has gone bad.
The SATA bridge card inside a USB external HD has a very high failure rate in general
Typical SATA bridge cards as seen inside a 3.5" external HD with power input (#1), and 2.5" SATA cards (#3, #4, #5)
What are the realistic odds your HD is perfectly fine?
There are no hard facts whatsoever, especially since so many people discard their assumed “dead/faulty” hard drives, but a good educated conclusion from years of examining and seeing this issue is that for hard drives made since 2010, and not dropped or generally abused, is that a minimum of 50% conservatively are perfectly fine! I personally estimate however that it likely approaches 60%+.
Considering how many external hard drives ‘fail’ (rather the SATA bridge more than half the time) each day, that is a very high number of perfectly fine HD that are tossed!
This is especially common with 3.5” desktop HD that are connected 24/7 with power and see a lot of data transfer. People wrongly conclude that “X” mfg. just made a defective drive, when in fact their 3.5” drives inside the plastic enclosure is 100% fine. I have personally seen well over 200 of these dead SATA cards and additionally seen 3 fail within a one hour span of doing a large data copies.
One of the very reason pros use bare HD as inserted into HD docks is not just the saving of space and the need for endless USB cables, but the elimination of the need for this high failure-rate part.
While the shapes and sizes vary somewhat on SATA bridge cards, they all serve the same purpose and have likewise failure rates
What exactly is the SATA bridge card in your external HD?
In the middle to late of 2009, most all external hard drives both in 2.5” and 3.5” reached the shelves in SATA III. These small SATA cards or "bridges" are used to translate between the hard drives’ interfaces and the enclosures' external ports (USB, Thunderbolt, Firewire). Additionally these small bridges not only transfer power but also of course the data. Unfortunately these SATA bridge cards have a very high failure rate as they are burdened with moving power (in 2.5" HD) and of course data.
Literally, these little unreliable and fragile cards are the power conduits and of course the nervous system for all external HD data transfer.
SATA card as found inside a typical USB external hard drive
The assumption that the hard drive is bad when its not!
Countless 1000s of good external hard drives are thrown away each year because the owner thought the HD was bad when it fact it was the SATA bridge card which had failed. This card is removed in a matter of mere second once an external USB HD is cracked open from its plastic casing to reveal the bare HD and the attached SATA card which attaches between the HD and the USB cable.
To complicate this problem, even many computer professionals do not know that there is a very easy solution to the “failing or dead HD” issue since the hard drive itself is very likely just fine. Its astonishing that so many highly educated computer repair persons are unaware of this high-failure part, but this is mostly due to the fact that they do not juggle 100s of hard drives and know that of the iceberg that is a “external hard drive failure”, the mostly unseen majority are not a HD failure at all, but a bridge card failure.
To add to this great misunderstanding is the fact that people assume that "likewise symptoms seen on an external HD are the same as seen on an internal HD, therefore also the external HD must be bad". This is a compositional fallacy of logic. Since internal HD do not have a SATA bridge interface, to conclude similar symptoms "indicate the same failure" is misplaced and incorrect.
This is all not to say that HD do not fail, they do indeed, and I have seen many 100s of dead and failing hard drives. Hard drives even under ideal conditions have a life expectancy of around 4-8 years due to ferromagnetic depolarization from entropy and the main reason being mechanical failure. But of the mountain of symptoms that are seen as “hard drive failures” in comments, posts, and hearsay, half or more of these are not a HD failure at all.
What makes up an external USB HD or Thunderbolt HD?
While modern external HD boxes vary in shape and size somewhat, they're the same inside on almost 100% of them.
Four parts essentially:
1. Your 2.5” or 3.5” hard drive.
2. The plastic or metal box it rests in.
3. The USB cable and also (in the case of the 3.5” external) the power cable and block.
4. The SATA bridge card.
Clear USB HD in its case, with green SATA card at top,...not shown is the USB cable
The USB cables are almost entirely unheard of today to fail, and the box enclosure cannot fail, leaving the good HD you have taken care of and the 50 cent part which juggles both power and data to and from the HD itself, that being the SATA card.
What drives will work for this go-around fix?
Almost any drive 2010 and later, all 3.5” HD mid-2010 and on, and almost all USB 2.5” external hard drives, including firewire, and thunderbolt enclosure encased conventional platter hard drives.
The rare exception is a slimline 7mm thick "slim" external HD in both Toshiba and WD in certain models where the SATA bridge has been incorporated into the HD to save money and production costs.
Much older drives 2009 and earlier will not work for this faulty part work around. -
I have a Seagate Freeagent 1TB external drive that ejects it's self in the middle of the time machine backup, then disappears and can't be found unless I turn it off and back on again. Any ideas?
Hmmm.. sorry to jump in but...
I Wish I had seen this before I got mine.
Mine has been doing this auto eject stuff too.
I think I just plugged it in and TM let me select it but is it possible
I should have reformatted it with DU first, like with all the WD drive problems ?
Is it too late for that ?
Or just try to return it or get rid of it ?
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Once I upgraded to ML, I'm now finding that my Seagate Free Agent external hard drive is no longer being backed up by Time machine. Do I have to wait for Seagate to update their drivers for this hard drive?
I tried your suggestion, and it's been giving me the message "Preparing for Backup" for the past 8 hours. Does this mean TM is backing up my hard drive? I'll give it a few more hours, but if nothing else happens, I'm not sure what else to do. I'm not sure if there are any new external hard drives that are compatible with ML yet.
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I just purchased a Seagate Slim portable drive for backing up my mac. Used it the first time today. Now I forgot how to safely eject it manually when it is/was finished backing up.
Choose Computer from the Finder's Go menu, select it, and press the Command and E keys.
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Can anyone suggest a simple system for backing up my MacBook?
I have a MacBook 120G which runs Tiger. I also have an Aiport Extreme, which is connected to a printer via USB. I want to buy an external hard drive to create a safety back up of my whole system. I have been trawling the suppliers' websites, getting more and more confused. Can anyone suggest the simplest solution for a simple-minded user like me? These are my main confusions:
a) Can anyone suggest what type / make of hard drive I should buy in order to be able to store my computer's contents and re-boot it in the event of disaster? Will a non-powered hard drive do the job or is it somehow better to get a powered one? It would sit near my desk so I am keen to avoid fan noise if at all possible! I believe I'll need to 'partition' the drive in order to make it bootable, or something - if this is correct, what kind of hard drive is easiest and idiotproof for this?
b) I think I've concluded it's not worth binning my Airport Extreme and replacing it with a Time Capsule. But is it worth buying Leopard in order to get Time Machine? I believe I can still use the Airport Extreme to connect to the hard drive so that Time Machine would make backups regularly and wirelessly? If so, do I need to use a USB hub from the Airport Extreme so that I can still keep the printer connected? I can only find one HD which has a built in hub - the Iomega Minimax - but I have read reviews saying the fan is noisy. Any other suggestions?
Any help and suggestions about this would be very gratefully received. Many thanks
SteveLeopard is a nice upgrade (if your computer has 2GB of memory) and TimeMachine is convenient but it isn't the only way to create a reliable and simple backup system. If you decide TM is your solution buy a drive that has 2 to 3 times as much space as you are using on your computer now. If you are using 80GB of your drive now, buy a 160GB to 240GB drive for TimeMachine. It keeps multiple backups and eats up drive space pretty quickly.
Lots of good backup programs exist but the one I really like is called SuperDuper! It will create an exact duplicate of your hard drive and you can set up a schedule so that automatically backs up new and modified files at specific times/days. With my MacBook I connect it to my external drive on Friday evening and let SuperDuper! do its work overnight. If you chose this router or another that doesn't use TimeMachine, get a drive at least as large as your computer's hard drive.
The Western Digital MyBook series is a good choice and so is the Seagate FreeAgent series. I'd avoid self powered external drives like Western Digital's Passport series unless you intend to travel with the drive. They require special proprietary cables to power the drive which are easy to lose and expensive to replace, among other things. If you can afford a firewire drive that's generally preferable because firewire is faster than USB but the speed difference isn't blazing. If you do you backing up over night speed won't be an issue.
Whether you use TimeMachine or another program, this is just once phase of a backup plan. If you experience a break-in, fire, or flood the backup drive is probably going to experience the same fate as your computer. You also need to think about taking a backup of your most important files off-site. This can be as simple as once a month burning a DVD of your documents, digital photos, and email to a DVD and taking it to work. -
Seagate FreeAgent External Hard Drive & Time Machine
I have a 1 TB Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups. However, I get one or two backups on it and it suddenly becomes "Read only" and won't allow Time Machine to write to it. My user name is listed as having read/write permissions. I go into Disk Utility and Verfy the disk. It comes back saying it needs to be repaird, so I click Repair Disk and then after several minutes of repairing it comes back with an error that the disk can't be repaired and that I should backup the contents and reformat.
I have reformatted it a couple times and each time this happens once I attempt to use it for Time Machine again. At times it won't even mount.
Is this a bad drive and I should contact Seagate for replacement (it is only a couple months old) or is it something I'm doing/not doing? Is it Lion (though it was kind of flaky even when I was running Snow Leopard)?
I have a MBP (early 2011) running Lion with 8 GB RAM, 1 TB internal HD.Now I have that sinking feeling.
It is plugged directly into the MBP. No power supply as it is a "portable" HD so it's powered from USB.
My sinking feeling is coming from the fact that since day one of owning this MBP (I got it in March 2011) the built in card reader has had problems. When I put a card in, it mouts and reads fine, but if I reach around and move the MBP holding onto the bottom of the case near the card reader slots (the natural place to grab it to pick it up) I get a message that I've ejected the car improperly even though the card is still seated and hasn't move. This leads me to believe that there is some kind of problem with the internal connections to the motherboard. Now with this added symptom of the disk not mounting I'm more concerned about motherboard trouble. Thankfully I have Apple Care.
But, the other thing is, when I connect the EHD and it doesn't mount/is not recognized by Time Machine, it does show up in Disk Utility as being there--indicating it connects fine as far as cabling etc--but it won't mount from Disk Utility, and I can't do disk repair. The only thing I can do is reformat it and then it will work for a while before going back through the whole won't mount, have to format procedure again. So I'm really stumped since there seems to be no clear indication if the problem is related to the card reader symptom or if it is a bad drive. -
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 tb not showing up in disk utility
I am trying to use the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 tb external hard drive on my PowerBook G4. After I plugged it in, it did not show up on my desktop. When I tried to format it by going to disk utilities, the drive does not show up in the left hand column. What should I do? thank you
Hello Hank,
Still sounds like a power problem to me, based on reports I've seen here over the 12+ years I've been haunting these forums. You have three options, two cheap and one more expensive. First the expensive one:
1) Return the Seagate drive and get one from OWC. Many name-brand externals don't play well with Macs, especially drives that have to get power from the USB port. An OWC product that works with or without an external power supply is this one:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
It has a port for an optional AC power supply, shown toward the bottom of the page. Generally, OWC drives usually work fine from USB power alone as they are optimized for Macs.
Now for the cheap options:
2) Get a powered USB hub (comes with its own power brick). The external power source makes up for the lack of power available at the port.
3) Get a "Y" cable:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/USB2AYMBPB/
It attaches to two USB ports to get extra power to turn the drive motor and run the controller board.
If you must have an outlet-free drive for mobile use, options 1 and 3 are applicalble. I use powered drives because, when traveling, I only use my externals when I'm in a hotel or at someone's office where power outlets are available.
Hope this helps
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Which is better,the Apple TimeCapsule or the WD MyCloud for backing up pixs and datas?
I am not too sure which is better for backing up my pixs that i have saved and dont want to lose them,am thinking which would be best for me to purchase?the apple timecapsule or the wd mycloud,i heard great things about both but not sure from someone who got experience,so could u help me out and tell me which is better and why?
thanks in advance...Backup is backup. Doesn't matter how you do it, but that you do it.
Given the choice you posited I would choose the Time Capsule if you want to use Time Machine. If you wish to use third-party backup software then you can only use the WD. It comes with its own proprietary backup software. Or you can go another direction and avoid cloud/network backup which is very slow.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
drive being backed up.
3. Time Machine requires a backup drive that is at least double the
capacity of the drive(s) it backs up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Although you can buy a complete external drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets especially for Firewire drives (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
1. Cool Drives
2. OWC
3. WiebeTech
4. Firewire Direct
5. California Drives
6. NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver. -
Sharing a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109
Airport Extreme
We have recently purchase an Airport Extreme to provide Wireless networking and also an attached USB drive
My partner as Apple iBook G4 running Tiger OS, am running Windows XP SP 3 Intel Celeron (DHCP enables, IP 192.168.1.6 GW 192.168.1.1 mask 255.255.255
We can both connect to the wireless LAN and the Internet without difficulty but we can not see the attached drive
The drive has been my directly attached USB storage device for some time
It is a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109 running its own backup utility. It therefore as all my backups on it as well some additional info that will not fit onto my hard drive therefore I do not want to do anything that may cause me to loose my data
We have configured the Airport Extreme as follows
Internet
IP Address 192.168.1.4
mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1.
DNS 192.168.1.1.
Connection sharing Off (Bridge Mode)
Disk
In the Disk the pane shows “931.5 GB - Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109” (this is non editable)
File sharing tab
File Sharing ticked
Secured shared disks = with a disk password
password set
Guest not allowed
Workgroup set as the same Workgroup as my PC (Workgroup)
No WINS server is configured
We have read hours of articles on the Internet. My partner has been looking for a shared option within her sidebar as this has been referred to but can not see it, she can not see the drive at all
I have added 192.168.1.1 (automatically added) and 10.0.1.1 (I added after reading articles) into my Norton firewall (full trust) and have turned off the Windows firewall.
I am running Bonjour for Windows (although I am unsure how I confirm this is always running but it is within the browser button bar).
I try to find the drive on Windows I use Explorer and use “tools” and “Map network drive” and select \\192.168.1.4\Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109. It attempts to find this but says the network path can not be found
I have read articles that seem to indicate that we must reformat the dive for MAC OS extended for it to work but I am worried that I will loose my data and the back up untilities
Can you help?Thanks very much for the reply, I thought that might be the case. I guess that would mean lossing all my data on the drive? More important to me is the backup utility. I think that has a host element on the drive but I am not certain
Thnaks again for the info
Steve -
Mac OSX Tip - Lost Directory on Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex External Drive
I have a Mac user (OSX Snow Leopard) who does a lot of video processing so 3 months ago, to speed video processing, I purchased a Seagate FreeAgent Goflex 1TB external drive with the optional Firewire adaptor (so I could run USB2 or Firewire). A few days ago, the drive became corrupt when it didn’t eject correctly and Seagate’s own software, that appears to run to mount the drive, would not terminate once the drive was mounted.
The symptoms are:
1. The disc appears on the Mac desktop after being plugged in.
2. Most or all of the files and directories are missing.
3. The free space on the drive reflects the fact that there are files still on the drive.
4. Trying to eject the drive in the normal fashion results in a warning that the drive could not be ejected because an application is using files on the drive, so you must choose “force eject” to remove the drive from the desktop. Even if you freshly reboot the computer and just plug in the drive, it cannot be ejected normally.
I contacted Seagate and, after going through their support section, ended up sending an e-mail and also figured out how to put a ticket in to support. The suggestions: a Seagate Do-it-yourself data recovery program (that scans the drive at 1GB per HOUR) or send the drive to them for their data recovery service at a cost anywhere from $700 to $2500+ to recover the data. Before you buy a Seagate drive, I would highly recommend that you visit the Seagate website because Data Recovery must be a BIG BUSINESS of theirs!
In an effort to solve the problem, I purchased Disk Warrior (this was the suggestion of the Apple Store Genius folks but they were honest about it may/may not work). Trying to “Graph” or “Restore” the directory gave the following error in a few seconds.
+The directory of the disk "1TB Firewire Portable" cannot be rebuilt.+
+This disk is still in use. Quit all other applications, or restart from the DiskWarrior disc, and then try rebuilding again. If you report this error, please mention the error code (2153, 4903).+
Without luck using Disk Warrior, I set off to find the application that was running that kept the drive from ejecting. Using “Activity Monitor”, I was able to find that the “Seagate Storage Gauge” application, even after being manually terminated as a job, would recreate itself in a second or two. There was no way to get rid of this application. I found the culprit - or at least I thought so.
Here is how I managed to recover the data (I did NOT fix the drive).
1. I removed the Seagate folder from the HD/Library/Applications Support folder (put it on my desktop). This directory contains the file “Seagate Storage Gauge”
2. I “force eject”ed the Seagate Drive
3. I unplugged the drive (by now, I’d done this a lot)
4. I rebooted the computer (logging out/in does not fix this as Seagate used Root as the user for the application)
5. After the computer rebooted, I plugged in the drive and was able to see the files and folders.
At this point, it’s time to plug in another hard drive and copy everything except the Seagate programs that come on the Seagate drive.
After recovering all my files, I still had to “force eject” the drive but at this point, it’s nothing but a paperweight to me. I do not trust this drive and will not buy another Seagate product.
I’m hoping that this information will help others recover their own data from their Seagate drives, without purchasing the Data Recovery Service from Seagate.Although this may not be of help to you, perhaps it will help someone. I read a review of the Seagate STAM2000100 2TB GoFlex Home Network Storage System. It sounds like just what I needed, and after some brief research, I ordered it. When it arrived, I spent hours and hours trying to understand the installation instructions and researched the blogs on Apple, Seagate and other sites. Then I spent most of a day trying to make it play nice with my Mac. In the end I returned the product because of the effect it had on my iMac 5.1 running Snow Leopard. I did my best to undo the installation of Seagate software, but my hard drive was still having trouble starting.
After much fiddling and research, I found a hint: try looking at the settings on the HD. Using the Disk Utility on the Mac, I had it Verify Permissions. It found lots of wrong settings, so I had it Repair Permissions. Now my Mac is back to its old self. ;<) -
Seagate FreeAgent Desk (Mac) turns on when not in use?
Hi,
I just bought a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent for mac. It is all working fine, I have partitioned it to use half for time machine and half as just an external hard drive. It turns on every hour to back up, and sleeps after that, but I find it turns on a couple more times in the hour when it is not backing up and the storage partition isn't in use either.
It's quiet so I don't mind when it turns on to back up, but it's a bit annoying when it comes on when it's not in use.
Any ideas appreciated,
Thanks.nwgjackson,
Welcome to the Forums! I think what you are seeing is one spotlight indexes regularly so that its easy for you to find things, and when the disk is plugged to your mac it periodically reads what is on the disk so that you can easily access it if you so wish.
Weston -
Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1TB causes windows crash and to go in a reboot loop
I bought this Seagate external USB HDD 1000Gb capacity and have been using this for a while. I was able to backup about 500gb of data. This external hdd was permanently hooked on to my computer which has win XP pro (4gb ram, 2.66Ghz CPU Pentium). I have used this only for backing up personal data ,photos and videos.
One day I got the dreaded blue screen and rebooted my machine. The machine went on a reboot cycle. It used to show BIOS screen then windows logo and back to BIOS screen.
After that I unhooked my external HDD and the machine booted up clean. Now when I try to hook the external HDD and power it on, my windows crashes with the blue screen and shows the ntfs error.
How do i make it work. I have lots of data which I can't afford to lose.Sounds like the drive has gone bad, not a common problem by any means. If the data is important, there are several data recovery options including Geek Squad. These options are not cheap though.
Adam
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Seagate FreeAgent Go is making a clicking sound and the light is rapidly blinking. My Macbook is no longer recognizing it. Is there any way to pull all the songs I have saved on it? The SeaAgent is less than a month old!
Does anyone know how to fix this issue?
Or at least recover the lost data?
Thanks!How to fix: the drive is in warranty, so contact Seagate for a replacement.
How to recover your data: Do you have backups? (If not, you really, really, should.)
You can try downloading Data Rescue, which will run in trial mode and let you know if the data is recoverable. (You can then choose to purchase the full version if it works for you.) A clicking drive, though, is usually (though not always) a sign that the drive cannot be recovered.
Matt
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My itunes library was on my PC. About two years ago I switched it to my Seagate server/hardrive. (itunes-preferences-advanced-change library). Last summer (2012) I bought a macbook, which seems to access the seagate server hard drive fine for word docs, excel spreadsheets,etc. It also seems to have started its own library which is not complete. My PC died this summer (I still have it though).
Now when syncing any of the multiple devices (ipods,ipads, iphones) that we have with my mac book, itunes states that "an error occurred" or the "app cannot be found". Itunes wants me to erase the device and sync with my macbook. The message "The iPhone “Renee’s iPhone” is synced with another iTunes library on “Renee PC”. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library? An iPhone can be synced with only one iTunes library at a time. Erasing and syncing replaces the contents of this iPhone with the contents of this iTunes library."appears.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Reneeu can give try to using external enclosre and backup ur files. I hope u will get files back. or using external enclosre with ur hdd boot into Linux and try to mount ur harddisk.
there are multiple no of tutorial to mount apple partion in Linux.
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Colors in ALV report - column wise
Hi, I have a ALV report. I want color in my report like Column Wise. ex. Document No........Date.........Amount......Document No......Date........Amount........Document Nov........Date.............Amount.... 2008000123...10.07.2009....2000.00......20
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I have been getting the message "a drawing error occurred" in Acrobat 9 Pro for no reason I can think of. Some pdf files are okay, others are not. I have to use Reader 9 to see the files Pro 9 will not open. Anyone with an idea on how to track the er
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How to use laptop as external disc drive?
I know i can use my laptop as an external disc via 'Remote Disc' but my install is 80gig and having just got half way through before my gifl accidentally closed the laptop lid i was wondering if i can actually hook the laptop upto the computer via a
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Hi, I have created a Custom Monitoring Object using /SSA/EXM. I have assigned 10 Parameters and 1 Key figure to this monitoring Object. The objective of this monitor is to select the entries from a table based on the 10 parameters given in selection
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My email won't send as when it was set up an extra letter was accidentally inserted in the address. I need to know how to remove the entire email address and start a fresh.