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1TB USB FreeAgent to 1TB Maxtor Central Axis Ethernet Drive

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‎09-25-2009 11:05 PM

I have had a 1TB Maxtor Central Axis Ethernet Drive fail - losing important data. I received a replacement drive and decided to purchase a 1TB USB FreeAgent drive with the hope that I can copy the most important files from the Maxtor drive to the FreeAgent drive. I hooked up a smaller USB drive in the past (a 160GB USB drive) to the Maxtor and it worked very nicely. However, after installing the Central Axis software and the 1 touch Backup for the Maxtor, I was able to set it up to view the networked drive of my laptop and it's public folder. However, I was not able to see the FreeAgent connected to the USB port on the back of the Maxtor Central Axis. I have all connections working - Fios Router ----> Ethernet Maxtor Central Axis 1TB ------> 1TB FreeAgent USB connected to Maxtor USB port. All power connections are working and to reduce the failure of the Maxtor (which runs hot) I added a fan to the back of the drives and router.

I can access to Maxtor but can not view the Seagate FreeAgent drive. I can not access the drive from the FreeAgent software that I installed after making the USB connection directly to my laptop and I can not access the drive from Windows Vista Explorer to find the hardware on the FreeAgent drive.

Has anyone has a similar experience and can you help me resolve the problem.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: 1TB USB FreeAgent to 1TB Maxtor Central Axis Ethernet Drive

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‎09-26-2009 06:44 AM

You should connect the FreeAgent drive directly to your computer. If connected to the Central Axis it should show up as a shared folder. The Axis runs its own O/S. The smaller drives you used in the past were probably formatted as FAT32. I've seen other post that say NTSF drives will be read only if connected to the USB port. (I would verify that if I had the time).  If you used the Central Axis to format the 1TB drive it gets formatted as Ext3 which is not compatable when connected to a windows machine.

 

The freeagent software is not needed if you plan to use the drive as storage. If you are using 64bit Vista, download a new copy of the FreeAgent software.

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