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steve1312
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01-06-2010
01:26 PM
When I goto My Computer and try to open my free agent desk ext h/d It will only open by right clicking and then clicking open It won't open by double clicking any ideas ??????? ps i'm running Vista
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01-07-2010
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Run checkdisk on it
at first.
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tried ths any other suggestion plese thanks steve
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01-10-2010
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Is there an AUTORUN.INF file in the root directory of your FreeAgent drive? Note that it may be hidden.
Is the Seagate Manager task running?
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