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External drive problem

bodonnell · 2015-01-18 15:26:46

I have a Seagate Freeagent external drive which recently stopped working. It is visible in device manager but not in Explorer. It sounds like it is spinning up but I cannot access it, anyone any ideas.

18-01-2015 3:26pm

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bodonnell

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I have a Seagate Freeagent external drive which recently stopped working. It is visible in device manager but not in Explorer. It sounds like it is spinning up but I cannot access it, anyone any ideas.

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#2 18-01-2015 4:38pm

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When you have it plugged in, do Start >> Run, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter. See if you can see it in the Disk Management utility - if you can, and it shows an active partition, right click on it and assign it with a drive letter and see if you can see it in Windows Explorer.

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#3 19-01-2015 8:56am

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@ propjoe, thanks will give thet a go

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