Seagate Technology is an American manufacturer of hard disks and tape drives, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Scotts Valley, California.
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Do seagate 3 TB hard disk need special setup before usage?
Is it mandatory to install special seagate drivers
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
if you use a 3 TB SATA disk over external eSATA expressCard Adapter?
I have an old and a new ...
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Transfer files between two NAS units on same network
So I have two Seagate BlackArmor 400 NAS units and I want to transfer a lot of files from one to the other.
I can access both through a browser GUI and also are the shares I want to transfer between ...
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External hard disk not working in windows 8
I am unable to access my external hard disk of seagate in windows 8.
It is a company laptop and i am logging from admin account.
Model: HP (Elite Book 8470P)
I can see both drives when ever i plug ...
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My Freeagent GoFlex removable hard drive won't install the drivers correctly
I have a Seagate removable hard drive that I have not used for about 6 months and when I plugged it in I can't use it. When I plug it into the USB I can hear the soft sound of the hard drive spinning ...
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3TB Seagate Barracuda causing freezing
Hi I have bought a brand new 3TB Seagate hard drive. I tried to copy data from my older hard drives to the new one, but it always stops copying selected data set after some time and the file manager ...
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Seagate ST3 1000 340AS hard drive failure
Drive: Seagate Baracuda 7200.11 ST3 1000 340AS
Size: 1000GB
Problem: BIOS fails to recognize drive
Seagate forums suggest that this one is a firmware problem, however once a drive failed then it is ...
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Seagate External USB 3.0 HDD doesn't register when connected?
I've got a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Hard Drive that I use for backups.
I previously had issues with USB ports not supplying sufficient power to the drive, but that was ...
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Is there a way to disable power management on a Seagate ST2000DM001 harddrive completely?
After I bring my Seagate ST2000DM001 harddrive offline using Diskpart, then spin it down using HDDScan for Windows 3.3, and then finally disable its device driver using DevCon so that AFAIK no ...
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Seagate 3TB drive not showing up in Device Manager in Windows
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My aunt gave me a 3TB Seagate external USB drive for Christmas. It takes a little jiggling (power cycle) to work on my Mac, where it shows up as a perfectly functional NTFS partition, but in ...
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What tests can you do on a hard drive that was recently bumped to see if it is ok?
What tests can you do on an external hard drive that was recently bumped to see if it is ok?
A SMART check perhaps? Filesystem check (Linux fsck)?
Is there anything further you might suggest?
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Drive not detected in Windows 7 but Ubuntu detects it
I recently bought a Seagate Expansion 3TB (STBV3000300) external hard drive and tried running it on my computer with Windows 7 installed on it. It is not being detected by the computer. I tried ...
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Repair BAD Sectors or Buy a new HDD? [closed]
I have a Seagate internal hard disk drive. I recently opened up my laptop [Dell Inspiron N5010] [Warranty has expired], cleaned it and it worked normally after waking up from hibernation. However, ...
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USB HD Freezes Windows Explorer
I recently purchased a "Seagate STBX1000200 1TB Expansion 2.5 inch External Hard Drive". It has been working without problems until recently. When i plug the device into a USB port the device is ...
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Windows 7 sata disk not recognized after wake up from sleep state
My windows 7 x64 PC/server worked fine until I installed a brand new seagate SATA hard disk (2 TB). My first disk was a IDE Maxtor (250 GB). I tried to use it as a secondary drive leaving the maxtor ...
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Windows 7 backup to 3TB Seagate external drive got 0x8078002A error
I'm using the Windows 7 backup and restore utility to create a system image and personal file backup to an external Seagate GoFlex 3TB disk. I got the following error:
One of the backup files could ...
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Seasgate GoFlex NAS + Horrible Speed = Bad Experience
I am having issues with transfer speeds from my desktop PC to my NAS. I have my NAS hooked up to a Gigabit Gateway as well as my Desktop with Cat 5e. I see up to 4.0 MB/Second Transfer Rates, the ...
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Seagate External Hardrive shortcut issue
I have a Seagate external hard-drive which normally works perfectly fine.
When I plug it in and try to open it, all my folders show as shortcuts. When I attempt to open the shortcuts, it tells me ...
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1TB HDD making strange noise (not a common one)
I built a new PC some days ago, and everything seems perfect, except that the 1 TB HDD I cloned from my old 500 GB HDD is making a deep weird sound. First of all, every time I access the disk, I hear ...
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Hard Drive checking [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I troubleshoot a slow hard drive?
I have a SeaGate drive and I ran the long and short generic tests and they passed. However, the system still seems slow after a ...
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How to unlock 3TB HDD for Asrock X58 Extreme
I want to use my new Seagate Barracuda 3TB HDD.
Since my mainboard does not have an UEFI BIOS I can not use the whole storage capacity.
How can I unlock it?
I already tried this utility without ...
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Failing Again
I've got one of the infamous Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives (ST3500320AS), and it ran fine for several years, then failed with a bunch of LBA read errors. It was still under warranty, so I got it ...
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My “Seagate FreeAgent Desktop USB Hard Dive” does not appear on “computer” [duplicate]
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Why my “Seagate FreeAgent Desktop USB Hard Drive” will not appear on my computer?
When I try to connect my "Seagate FreeAgent Desktop USB Hard Dive" to my PC, usually it ...
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Why my “Seagate FreeAgent Desktop USB Hard Drive” will not appear on my computer?
Just try to watch a movie on Xbox360 but the USB was not recognizable. So my brother he clicked on"configure USB Drive" and he click on "customize". Few seconds later the screen froze, restarted the ...
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Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5TB - Faint Beeping but not recognised
I have a FreeAgent XTreme 1500GB (eSATA, Firewire400 and USB 2.0) external hard disk.
The hard drive I have is the same as displayed in the image at ...
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Seagate drive able to work on a HP pavilion dv6 (windows 7 64bit) as a external drive?
I have 2 seagate drives both 750 GB. Is it possible, if I connected a Dual Power ESATA USB 2.0 combo male to 22Pin female SATA extension (which costs around 5 dollers) and connected it to my laptop ...
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SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 HDD not running
After a huge research, I'm stuck at the beggining of getting my HDD data back.
Whats happening to me is that in the moment when I plug the power wire to my external 1TB SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 ...
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New Seagate GoFlex external hard drive reporting temperature 50C and higher--defective or normal?
I have a brand-new Seagate GoFlex hard drive, and my SMART diagnostics program (CrystalDiskInfo) is warnings me that the drive is running too hot.
The lowest reported temperature I've seen it is 48C, ...
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mounting 3TB hard disk
I have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda disk (model no. st3000dm001). The disk contains data and uses ext3. I am using an external SATA enclouser via USB. I am trying to mount the disk using my ubuntu machine. ...
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WD Velociraptor or Hybrid Drive (Seagate Momentus XT) for VMs, backups, storage? [closed]
I am looking to buy a second HDD for my laptop (I have two hdd bays). I already have a 256GB SSD, but that's not enough for Virtual Machines and incremental backups and general storage. I might also ...
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Seagate Barracuda model st3000dm001 [closed]
I wonder what is the best external enclosure for a 3TB SATA Seagate Barracuda disk model no.: st3000dm001.
Thanks,
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 not recognized in BIOS
A computer with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 failed, so I found another computer to replace it. I was going to swap out the hard drives, but when I put the Seagate in the new computer, it doesn't ...
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Will this RAID5 setup work (3TB Seagate Barracudas + Adaptec RAID 6405)?
As the title states, will this RAID combo work, and if not what needs to be changed? Overall opinions would be most helpful.
I currently run a small file server of about 5TB or so. I keep outgrowing ...
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Cause of file corruption on Lenovo T60
What would be possible causes for corrupt Windows 7 system files? We have 5 Lenovo T60 laptops, and noticed that a system file scan - sfc - showed 2 of the 5 machines had modified files. What would ...
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System restore from NAS drive using system restore disk
I have a seagate flexdrive, on to which I save my backup windows 7 images. To test that system image restore worked I tried a dummy run. When I booted system restore disk up, It said that it could ...
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Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive and VMWare virtual disks
I would like to know how does Seagate Momentus XT see virtual disk?
As a single huge file (size depending on virtual disk type)
As individual file within this virtual disk?
If the first one is ...
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Unable to update a strange HDD firmware
I'm not able to update the firmware on a Seagate ST3500620AS hard drive, neither with the Windows update tool nor the bootable CD (available on this page : ...
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Hard drive works intermittently but stalls on a specific sector
I replaced a hard drive for a client, but they have a lot of family photos on the old one, so I'm trying my best to recover them. The drive powers up, but often doesn't appear in HDClone. Sometimes, ...
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How do I recover data from my presumably dead hard disk
I have a Seagate ST3500620AS (Barracuda 7200.11) hard disk:
SATA
500GB
7200 spindle speed
I've used this disk for about 2 years now. But today it happened that my computer wouldn't wake up from ...
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External hard drive not disconnecting and leaving 'ghost drives' on my PC
I use a Seagate FreeAgent on my laptop and PC. While it works fine most of the time, sometimes when I try to safely disconnect it, it says the files are in use. Obviously I have by that time shut down ...
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How do I gain access to my new Seagate HD?
I've got a new Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home external HD. I connected it a few days ago, and it seemed to be fine. Then, it seemed to no longer be assessible from any PC. So I thought I would ...
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Seagate Barracuda Green & Intel RST RAID 1 - slow drive wake up / clicking
I've got an interesting problem that I can't quite figure out. I'm using dual Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB drives ( ...
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Seagate FreeAgent Portable Drive suddenly doesn't want to open
I have a Seagate FreeAgent Portable Drive.
It was fine yesterday night when I was using it but this morning when I plugged it in, my computer didn't autoplay it and when I clicked it on the computer, ...
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Backup software marking error as success?
I'm really stumped here.
We got a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 device in our small office (3 computers) to do regular backups of our Windows (XP and 7) PCs.
Recently, the device was offline and we ...
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Seagate hardisk clicking and suspending access, but Seatools passes all tests. How to RMA
The drive access will periodically hang for 10-20 seconds at a time, it always gets there in the end but there's no doubt that the drive's on the way out.
Will I have to wait for it to actually fail ...
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How to access S.M.A.R.T. values when using RAID and Intel Matrix Storage?
We have a RAID 5 array using Intel Matrix Storage (i.e. a motherboard based RAID). One of the hard drives has started to make a grinding noise, and the array is currently rebuilding.
We'd like to ...
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Why would an internal hard drive suddenly short circuit when attached on another PC?
The hard drive is a main drive in a pc I was troubleshooting. It was working fine and was able to boot Windows XP on the original pc. When I pulled it out and attached it (via USB + external power) to ...
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Seagate Momentus XT corrupting files (Linux and Mac)
My Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive is corrupting files on Linux. I would appreciate help from anyone, but I'd particularly like to know if other Momentus XT users are able to reproduce this ...
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Why is my Seagate desktop HD not being detected?
I purchased a new Seagate 1tb Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive 1 month ago and installed it
successfully. I experienced no problems with it until yesterday when I turned off my PC. When I powered it up a ...
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Seagate HDD burnt PCB
We've been experiencing a rather odd volume of Seagate Barracuda [7200.9 (80GB)] HDD failures that resulted in brown spots on the PCB (hence "burning").
These units come from machines running RAID1 ...
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Something went wrong with external hard-drive, can I get my data back?
I have Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex External Hard Drive (500GB) and today when I plugged it to the laptop, it wasn't detected, and the indicator also remained off, however, I noticed a beep sound at ...
