The disk controller will eventually reset itself if the power is left off for a while(i.e., the disk is unplugged), but this is inconvenient.
Rebooting the computer does nothing to fix the disk problem, since it is the disk controller that is confused. The disks have somehow become confused (I surmise because the inrush current of the cleaners vacuum cleaner has disturbed the state machine in the disks). Press it for a while till the disk clearly is "going into a reset or power down state" then press it for a second or so so the disk repowers itself. These WD drives have a-hard to see- button on the back that resets their "state". 2) Removed the SATA bridge that came with the hard drive. I purchased seagate freeagent go 500GB HDD. I have done the following: 1) Removed the hard drive from the external case. i have windows 7-64bit OS, HP P6604Y, 6gb Ram, 1 Tb harddisk.
#MY SEAGATE FREEAGENT NOT RECOGNIZED WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 10#
The Problem: My Seagate hard drive would not be recognized by my Mac. I have a Seagate FreeAgent 500GB that stopped working (not recognized by my Windows 10 laptop). Problem was solved by disconnecting the power for a few minutes from both the computer AND the disks, then restarting the whole system after restoring power.Ĭables to the disk (in my case, going to an external USB 2.0 hub) were checked and found to be OK. I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive and recently it stopped mounting on my. Problem is not solved by power cycling the computer, or just rebooting the computer. Happens intermittently, especially after my "cleaning ladies" have visited. Symptoms: Hard drive (a WD MyBook 500GB, and WD MyBook 1 TB, in my case) is not recognized by the computer (Windows XP Windows Explorer program). My original 2008 was replaced in 2012 with model ST305004FDAIEI-RK. I noticed that my FreeAgent desktop external drive is not recognized by the system. Surprisingly, the answer is fairly simple. Seagate FreeAgent Not Recognized I have installed Win 10 with some problems but most of it is settling down now.