Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive is making a beeping noise and is not detected.?
Q. I was using my external hard drive last night and when I went to plug it in this morning, it is not being detected by the Seagate manager and it is making a faint beeping noise. Once it is left plugged in long enough, the beeping stops but it doesn’t light up and it’s still not detected. Can anyone help me please? What is happening exactly and how can I fix it?
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I think its a hardware failure so if the drive is clicking it means that the logic board inside that hard drive’s USB enclosure is not working properly or some is not soldered properly. If the drive is still under warranty, I would call Seagate. Here is the link for the warranty check http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp
If it is not under warranty, I would open the hard drive and buy a new hard drive enclosure for it. Its only for $15 from eBay.
Hope this Helps
-Adeel Chohan
I had the same issue.
I changed the USB cable and it worked fine
I have a Assembled Computer with Processor Intel Dual Core (R) @ 270 GHz, 3 GB of RAM equipped with Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition version 2005 service Pack 3 with Wi-Fi Netgear 108 Mbps Lan Card and Internal Pixelview TV Tuner Card.
I have just bought this external harddisk today from market. But My system cannot read the information on the my 500 GB Seagate Freeagent go external hard drive using the supplied USB cable. The external drive does not come up at all. Is a required driver missing out on my system? When I connect my 500 Gb Seagate Freegent go External Hard drive, it always ask for drivers and show message at last “The hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software.” I think that my Windows have some missing driver for this products. I have successfully running Freecom External 160 Gb Harddrive and Enter 2.5” HDD External Case without Drivers on my computer. Do I need to get a Y USB cable which have two USB cable (one additional USB cable for power consumption for this drive)? Does this drive run successful after plugging this with Y USB cable? I am running Window Xp Sp3. Does Window Xp Sp3 required external drivers for detecting 500 GB Seagate Freeagent go External Drive? I have tried this external harddisk on my Laptop too (Lenovo N100 with CPU Intel Core Solo @ 1.86 Ghz, 3 GB of RAM equipped with Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition version 2005 service Pack 3) and with my other computer which also have similar configuration and operating system as of above computer. It always show similar problem for not detecting drivers for USP Device in my Operating System.
Please help
Sukhdev Taneja