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September 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM
dervin80

Retrieving Data from External Hard Drive

by dervin80 . Updated 13 years, 8 months ago

I have a Seagate FreeAgent Portable Hard Drive that I was using on my desktop at work to store music, pictures, etc. I removed the hard drive from my desktop and am now trying to use it on a laptop at home. I plug the USB cable into the laptop and the computer prompts me to format the drive, even though it was previously formatted when installed on my desktop. How can I retrieve the information on the disk drive without having to format, and understandably delete the information currently on the hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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