Seagate 1TB Expansion Drive is not being recognized on my laptop


  1. furstyear
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    Windows Vista 7 Basic 32bit
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    Seagate 1TB Expansion Drive is not being recognized on my laptop


    My Seagate Expansion drive is not being recognized on my laptop or any other computer that I have tried to put it on. It worked for a while

    It is fairly new and I have about 500gb on it so far and I don't want to lose any of my data because most of it is my university files.

    I don't know why this is happening and I also can't even change the drive letter, I really don't know much about computers but this forum seems to help people, hope someone can help me Please.
    Thank you.
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  3. jumanji
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    Hi furstyear, Welcome to SevenFoeums.( I missed it. :))

    Please go through this troubleshooter and check whether it helps. Seagate Technology
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  4. furstyear
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    Windows Vista 7 Basic 32bit
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    My expansion drive is still not being recognized and a few of my friends said that this happens with a lot of seagate drives and this is really starting to make me mad because I paid $170 for it and only used it once.

    I am a student so I need everything that is on it. Please someone help!!! I'm not really good with computers either so I'm extra frustrated!
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  6. karlsnooks
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    furstyear,
    Please follow the advise given by jumanji and give a complete report of the results.
    thanks,
    karl
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