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David S
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Registered: ‎07-14-2012
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GoFlex Home Dock USB Port

I'm sorry if this has already been asked and answered; I searched and could not find anything.  I bought a 3Tb expansion drive which I plugged into the dock yesterday.  It is recognized in Seagate Dashboard but no drive comes up on my Win7 computer drive list.  I tried removing the expansion drive and substituting a memory stick.  It is powered, based on the light on the stick, but it also does not show as a drive on my computer.  Am I missing something?  The Goflex user guide says to just plug a drive into the USB port and it will show as a drive next to the Personal, Public, and Backup drives.

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ntpntpntp
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Re: GoFlex Home Dock USB Port

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Are you expecting it to come up as another mapped drive (eg. like the usual X:, Y: and Z: for the public, backup and personal drives)?  It doesn't work like that (ie. you won't get a new drive W: or whatever)

 

In the left hand side of the windows file explorer window you need to click on "Network" to view the list of devices: you should see GOFLEX_HOME.  Click on this to open it, you should then see a network share for "External Storage" along with shares for "Goflex Home Public" etc.  Click on "External storage" to open it and gain access to the drive or stick you plugged into the GF Home's USB port.

 

Although it's not always necessary, if you really need to, you should be able to set up the external drive as a mapped drive (eg. W: ) on your pc by right-clicking and following the  "Map network drive..." dialog   (I'm saying "should" here as I now only use my GF Home's usb port for a printer and haven't used it with an external disk for a long time). 

 

 

 

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kenji57
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Registered: ‎04-13-2012
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Re: GoFlex Home Dock USB Port

Yep, I can confirm what ntpntpntp wrote. I have a 2TB expansion disk connected to my GFH USB port. I use it to back up my GFH and also have it mapped as Y:

 

 

 

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