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Strangely Behaving External Hard Drive
I bought a 750gig Seagate FreeAgent Pro, recently. The drive has separate power source, and is plugged into a USB 2.0 port. The drive also has an eSATA slot. It works on two laptops I tested it on, but not my desktop. (I'm running XP Home Edition)
It's detected by the Device Manager, but in different ways, depending on if I power cycled the drive, uninstalled and searched for hardware changes on the Device Manager, when I plug it in, etc.
Best case scenario:
The computer recognizes it as a Seagate Pro in the Device Manager (instead of unknown device), and viewing properties shows a clean bill of health, but it doesn't appear whatsoever on the Disk Manager.
In My Computer, the drive appears as drive H:, but you cannot move files into it. It also doesn't show the manufacturer's files included with the drive, and its icon is a generic disk drive, instead of the unique Seagate icon which shows when it is plugged into other computers.
When the drive's properties are viewed, the file system is RAW instead of NTFS, which is what it is on other computers. It also shows 0 free space and 0 used space.
I've looked all over the place for a solution to this problem but I haven't found one that works! Can anyone help?
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