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[fixmydrive]

startech.com UNI3510U2EB is for 3.5'' drives. Can we use the same enclosures for 2.5'' drives as well. I have the same problem. I tried with docking bay with AC powered, but no luck. Hard disk beeps and doesn't spin. I didn't try the eSata though. I will try that. At this point, I think it is a hardware failure and end up spending lot of money if I have to receover the data.

[bixxie]

So i've had the same problem as everyone else.

I have a seagate 500gb 5400 portable It has valuable data on it just like most other people. I've tried everything! spent the last 8 hours doing so, my day off might i add.

My last attempt was to just plug it right in the MB. Bios didn't even pick it up.

I just get the same beeping noise for a few mins. It does 2 Flashes of the LED also.

Any other options on the table?

i can't pay 1000s on getting the data off it. any type of recovery software just doesn't pick it up

Am i SOL? 

Please no BS response like, is it plug in right?

Thanks

[Cantbecanit]

When you say plug it in the Mb do you mean you've opened it or simply used a rear port on the MB?

To connect it direct look in my guide halfway down the page and in section 6 of it and it shows you how to open one up, probably the last thing you might get a result from.

[gate_keepr]

Mine also has a beeping sound lights up runs a little and then dies but the light stays on is the data on there salvagable . I have baby picures on there the real ones were lost in a fire 10 years ago

Also if this is the way all the products from this company are I'll buy Westren Digital Hard drives I'm betting theres last more than 30 days..

Thank you seagate you truley are a company not worth buying from

[AskTheLeaf]

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gate_keepr wrote:

Mine also has a beeping sound lights up runs a little and then dies but the light stays on is the data on there salvagable . I have baby picures on there the real ones were lost in a fire 10 years ago

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Beeping is an indicator of low power. Please check the following:

- Re-seat (disconnect and re-connect) the USB cable at both ends

If the drive has an external power supply, plug the power supply directly into the wall instead of a power strip. Power strips can fluctuate power by more than 5% (maximum allowed variance for our drives). It may help to test the drive using a different power supply (if you have another with the exact same power output as the original). If this drive does not have an external power supply, try the drive on a different main USB data port (not through any hubs). Try the drive on a different data cable if possible.

Check this article as it can have a huge impact on power output on the USB port on 
Windows-based systems:

http://ow.ly/8ArL0

[anbuka]

I had the same problem. I changed the data (USB) cable, it started working fine. 

[Antoinette]

How many of  us is this now? I have been reading back from 2010 and it is now 2012 I wonder just how long Seagate has been making these inferior quality products, frustrating the heck out of people who have all lost all their years of hard work and data, all of course paying Seagate in the process by buying these external hard drives. I have read and tried everything in every post.   Gotten all the programms they say to try.  Funny how they don't realize at Seagate that Power Data Recovery won't work when it can't even SEE your Seagate external HD!  Duh!!!  Think people! I get so mad. I just had a whole HP that I had spent thousands of dollars over the course of just a very few years trying to keep going.  So when it finally died and I  spent day and night for at least the past 8 months  getting EVERYTHING I had on my HP desktop only to find that when the external HD got to 13 GB from being full it "broke". NO it is NOT what you are all saying.  Power sound maybe be beeping but tried it in a DELL desktop with no other USB usages, tried everything. Nothing works. Crazy thing is the stupid thing is flashing it's light like it wants to work but nothing recognizes it.  And yes I changed to a NEW USB cord-didn't work.  So how does this go now? Back up the back up and back up that back up and back the back up you just backed up because that back up will probably break too!  This whole computer thing is the biggest scam! And now what I have to start ALL over once again only to have the back up stop working again on me. How much of this are we expected to take so Seagate can make money making $1 parts that they sell for over $100?  I am mad! I am angry! I am upset! and I am fed up!

I like so many others will never buy any Seagate product again and make sure any future computer I buy has no Seagate parts either.

What a SCAM, no different than The Lying Stock Market, Politrics, or Gambling in Las Vegas.  It's all a crud shoot isn't it?

So don't anyone buy a Seagate Free Agent Go 320GB of course Made In China.

[Antoinette]

In the same boat you are too. I am mad. We all have things that are VERY important to us! Seagate doesn't care this has been going on for YEARS and they have known it as evidenced by these posts. They are making money off of suckers like us. 

[Antoinette]

 Is there such a thing as a SATA cable with one end being a USB and the other end what fits INTO your SeaGate FreeAgent Go External Hard Drives for the 320GB?  Can one be ordered or made? I need my files and from the research I have done it is from a min of $1,000 - $2,000 for recovery. 

I don't see very many answers from SeaGate on this site, wondering why. Got our money and don't care? I've been reading lots of posts all over the net about this and they all say SeaGate is the worst for broken Ext. HD's why don't  you guys care? Just making too much money ripping poeple off?

It might help if you at least answered peoples questions you know!

[kenji57]

usb to SATA adapters are easy to find, just do a google shopping search for usb sata adapter

I can understand why you are angry if you have spent "thousands of dollars and every day and night for 8 months" and lost your data. But if you still have the HP drive you should be able to connect it direct to the motherboard, SATA to SATA.

You would have to be very unlucky to have two drives fail at the same time, so one backup is usually enough, but if your data is very important then extra backups are a good idea and even keeping a backup off-site, just in case your house burns down.

It might be time to give up on the freeagent go. it sounds like it's dead and isn't coming back.

Eternal drives are more prone to fail than internal drive and portable (2.5") usb powered drives are not a good choice for backups. They are really for data transfers or for unimportant stuff like taking your music and movies with you.

Desktop externals are better for backups and also usually cheaper. I bought a Goflex desk USB 3.0, 1.5TB for $99.

But good luck finding computer accessories or even computers (including Dell and HP) that aren't made in China.

Welcome to the 21st century.