I’m experiencing problem in accessing data contents in my external hard drive – Seagate FreeAgent Go 120GB.
I’m running on Windows XP SP3.I used to have my External hard-drive (Seagate FreeAgent Go) plugged-in most of the time to backup data. Yesterday my PC “locked-up” twice and I had to reboot the PC.After this I tried to access the external hard drive and it doesn’t. The Seagate Device Manager software doesn’t do any good.
The drive is assigned by the system when the external drive is connected. But it takes a long time. Autoplay is searching and searching and finally abandons. In the device manager am able to see the drive. The file system is showing as RAW. Should it be NTFS – not sure?
The external hard drive capacity is 120GB and it is showing free space as 117 GB. I do have alteast 50GB worth of data and that is not being reflected.
I changed the drive name from I to M and it doesn’t help. There is no exclamation mark in the USB controllers.
The Safely Remove option does recognize the drive a Seagate. But any attempts to open it or run in Autoplay doesn’t work.
I tried to access thru MS DOS and it shows that there is I/O device error.
Is there any other technique that I can try to access the external drive contents thru my PC.
Thanks.
