Windows 7: Seagate Freeagent Go Not Working Properly.

I just went trough the same thing ended in a RMA

SEAGATE RMA

your drive is dying a...back up your data if possible and contact Seagate

If I understand you correctly you are trying to stop Seagate from running. Try this.
Go to Start and type msconfig and then select Start Up. Uncheck Seagate and then go to Services and in the lower left corner check Hide All Microsoft Services. What is left are 3rd part Services. Uncheck all except any security services that might be there. Boot your computer and check, Seagate should not be running.
As Mrhiab has suggested, back up everything you want to save while you can.

Hello guys. Thanks for REPLAYING, yesterday I tried to back up all my files to a CD but mu PC froze so I cudn't do anything, the funny thing is that i checked: ComputerManager > Disk Manager > and this is what i got:

what about doing a good through disk check on it? If there are filesystem errors in that disk you may have issues like that, with programs not finding their stuff and getting stuck.

Follow the tutorial linked and select "Automatically fix file system errors", be warned that it should take a long while, like say overnight, if it tries to annoy you saying "running programs preventing access", select "schedule disk check" and then reboot, it will do it reagrdless. But with an ugly dos-like text-on-black-screen interface that does not let you do nothing else until it's finished, still taking the same pretty long while.

Also uninstall all seagate stuff and use other programs to do and schedule backups. Nothing against Seagate, but I've had issues with such programs bundled with the USB HDD more than once.

You can try to connect it to a powered USB hub and see if it's a power issue, otherwise it should give you some chances to access the files and copy them back if it's really dying.

Hello,bobafetthotmail thanks for your Reply, I tried to fallow the steps that you suggested but didn't go too far.

Step One: disk check. Hard Drive didn't open so I couldn't do anything else.


Step Two: a powered USB hub. But Windows didn't recognize USB divice.



Step Three: uninstall all seagate stuff. Done successfully.

That is a cable with double USB power, not a powered hub. Not the same thing. Still better than nothing if you have no powered USB hub at hand, though.

Is it still under warranty? This is the appropriate time to RMA it back and get it repaired/swapped at their expense.

If it is not under warranty, and none posts better ideas (I really hope someone else does, but if the computer cannot even connect to the drive... there isn't a lot to do), you can try opening the case and taking out the HDD, and then connecting it to a desktop computer as if it was an internal HDD (because it is an internal hdd without the case)
and then see if it works there.

If it works fine (and hopefully your files should still be there), then you buy an External enclosure of your liking (even a fancy USB 3.0 or eSata one if you have the right ports on your laptop) and place the HDD into it.

It is a bit time-intensive and you may not be able to open the original case without damaging it, so it's really the last thing to do before putting everything in the trash.

Hello, I just want to Thank all of you for your support in this THREAD I finally took my seagate to a computer repair shop and they run a FreeDiagnostic.