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Seagate Expansion: My HDD doesn't work

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:54:30 -0700

My Seagate external hard drive is not working. I hear sounds of working from it.

But, when I connect to devices like computers. Android phone. TV... they don't show any reaction. What should I do to solve this problem?

⟐ Commented June 09, 2025 at 5:54 MST

Seagate Wireless Plus 2Tb: Battery replacement for Seagate Wireless Plus 2Tb?

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:58:05 -0700

Battery has been deteriorated since 2014.

I did teared down the devise. ordered battery on Amazone, but it does not fit model 1AYBA4.

Made lots of search, looks like Samsung Mega 6.3 i9200 battery should fit.

Kindly advise if anybody got fixed this issue.

Thank you in advance/

⟐ Commented July 22, 2024 at 13:58 MST

Seagate Expansion: File names disappeared now 0000001 00000002

Tue, 28 May 2024 03:33:49 -0700

Hey guys

Would really appreciate anyones help, I dropped my external hard drive it broke, my friend managed to get it working again but all the files are now blank with 00000001 0000002 as the names. Is there anyway he can recovery the files to its original state ?

Thanks

Seagate External Storage: How to remove hdd from a Seagate 4TB expansion drive and access files

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:26:43 -0700

I have a 4TB Seagate expansion drive (long out of warranty) which was knocked off a table and will no longer power up. Can someone walk me through the process of removing the hdd from the expansion case and setting up an hdd reader to let me access the files?

⟐ Commented October 25, 2023 at 9:26 MST

Seagate Expansion: Windows PCs won't detect Seagate External HDD

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:47:57 -0700

I have an external hard drive by Seagate, model is STEB6000403, and it won't be detected by my Windows computer. Each time I plug it in I can hear the disks spinning and the computer makes the normal "dudunk" sound whenever you plug something new into a USB port, but nothing shows up. The HDD does give two spaced beeps, probably both about a second apart before the disk stops spinning. I've tried to find somewhere official or non-official that describes these beeps as some sort of audible error code, but I have found nothing so far. I've tried a few of the solutions suggested online, those being:

Trying different ports on the computer
Using a different USB Micro B cable
Trying on a different computer

I moved on to the more "advanced" solutions where I took about the HDD. One common problem that seems to come up is that peoples drive heads get stuck so I thought I'd investigate this a possibility. Upon opening up the HDD the drive heads were not resting on the disk and in the expected position. I decided to plug the HDD into the computer with the disk exposed. The drive heads move across the disk to the center twice, each time the got to the center is when the beep occurred, then they moved back to their resting position. Does anyone have even an inkling as to how to fix this?

⟐ Answered August 25, 2023 at 12:47 MST

Seagate Backup Plus Hub: Very silent clicks when plugged in?

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:47:08 -0700

Today I found my old Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive (4TB) with the removable power stand

I have not used this drive since I got it back in '17 and found it laying in it's box.
I plugged it in to use it as games storage on my PC and it has a very quiet clicking sound, doesn't popup in my PC on devmgmt or Seagate Tools.

The light on the power stand turns off as soon as I attach the SATA ports on the drive to the stand

I tried attaching a HDD I had in my PC to it and the light turns off, but the drive works just fine

Seagate External Storage: Seagate Business NAS acting abnormally

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:22:15 -0700

I have just acquired a Seagate Business NAS 2 bay. It didn't have the original power supply, so I bought one from Amazon. It seems to work normally, but I'm unable to turn the unit off via regular methods. I connected it to my network and downloaded the requisite software. The software found it, and I can access the maintenance page via IP address in my browser. It even found the hard drives I put in there.

The problem is I'm unable to factory reset it so I can make use of all functionality. I followed the instructions in the manual and it refuses to reset. Is there anything else I can do to make this work?

⟐ Commented December 22, 2022 at 14:22 MST

Game Drive for Xbox: Why is it beeping?

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:10:37 -0700

I recently moved and set my xbox back up. When I power it on the external hard drive makes a beeping sound and powers off. Can this be fixed or do I need to replace it?

⟐ Answered October 18, 2022 at 1:10 MST

Seagate Backup Plus Hub: External Hard drive not showing up?

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:07:54 -0700

So I recently dropped my external hard drive on accident. I know I know… theres my first problem right.

Well I thought there might still be a chance that it works. So I plugged it in to my computer and the light on it came on as well as the sound that the computer makes when I normally plug it in.

The issue is though that it doesn’t show up on my computer anywhere. The weird thing is that I can still eject it like I normally would with the eject button… Is there anything I can do to fix it or to get my files? I have them backed up for the most part, there are only a few that I don’t have.

Also I’ve looked up other questions like this and a lot of them say there is some mysterious ticking noise coming from the harddrive but mine doesn’t have any noises coming from it.

Any help would be appreciated :)

⟐ Commented August 18, 2022 at 1:07 MST

Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive: Free agent external drive worked great yesterday now it wont even p

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:10:22 -0700

My free agent external drive worked great yesterday but now it wont even power up today! If i plugged in the wrong power cord could that bave ruined my drive?

⟐ Commented August 10, 2022 at 8:10 MST

Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive: hard drive never opens when plugged into computer

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:04:13 -0700

the hard drive turns on and lights up when plugged into computer but will never load or show up on desktop. Is a portable hard drive able to be fixed?

⟐ Answer deleted August 10, 2022 at 8:04 MST

Seagate Expansion: Why can't I find the device from My Computer?

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:42:45 -0700

When the device is plugged in, I see the small USB logo on the taskbar but I cannot see it in My Computer. When I click the taskbar logo, nothing happens.

⟐ Commented June 24, 2022 at 9:42 MST

Seagate Backup Plus Hub: Seagate backup plus desktop drive 4tb turns on and off.

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:50:34 -0700

STDT4000100 Seagate backup plus desktop drive 4tb turns on and off while connected to my computer.

⟐ Commented March 01, 2022 at 22:50 MST

Seagate Backup Plus Hub: How to hook up 6TB seagate backup plus drive without housing

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:20:13 -0700

The connecting port of my drive got damaged and my laptop won’t see the drive. Can I replace the housing or buy a different housing that will allow me to use the drive without the Seagate backup plus housing? Thanks!!

⟐ Commented December 15, 2021 at 13:20 MST

Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive: Indicator light doesn't turn on, pc doesn't recognise it, hear it spin

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 03:32:03 -0700

So I have a 2TB Seagate Slim Backup Plus Portable Drive.

I’ve had it for a couple of years now and today for some reason it seems to have randomly stopped working I guess. I say this because when I plug it into my pc, laptop, or even tv, it doesn’t read the device - I can’t see the drive on any of my devices, even checked disk management and it didn’t show. Strange thing is, I can hear it spinning, it sounds fairly quiet but I can definitely hear it however my pc doesn’t seem to see it and the indicator light doesn’t turn on either.

Can’t seem to find a similar issue anywhere online so any help here would be appreciated, would be happy to answer any of your questions as this just seems to have happened randomly tbh.

⟐ Commented September 13, 2021 at 3:32 MST

Seagate External Storage: Unable to open, copy or move files 4TB Expansion Drive

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:25:55 -0700

Hi I have a 4Tb expansion drive that overnight stopped working in that whether it is connected to a PC or SMART TV, you can easily navigate the folders, but as soon as you wish to open one of the files, it freezes (in the case of the TV) or same of laptop but can also crash and give error msg no accessible. I have tried (also suggested by Seagate) chkdsk /f & /r, have uninstalled driver and reconnect to rebooted computer to re-install, but still no joy in access the files.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as Seagate seem to have stopped sending suggestions!

Cheers

Bill

⟐ Commented August 28, 2021 at 20:25 MST

Seagate External Storage: Type of connector for encloser?

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:26:53 -0700

I am looking for a powered encloser for an old hard drive I have. I think this is an SATA III? But I am not sure and don’t want to buy a bunch that won’t fit it.

⟐ Commented June 27, 2021 at 20:26 MST

Seagate External Storage: Can’t find screw bit for External HD

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 06:46:44 -0700

Can’t figure out the screw bit needed for this and that’s after going through my bits in my pro tech tool kit.

⟐ Commented June 12, 2021 at 6:46 MST

Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive: Error: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:32:20 -0700

Someone pulled the USB cable out of my computer while I was downloading files to the Seagate FreeAgent Go. P/N 9NN2A3-500, S/N 5LZ15WQV. Now I am getting this error message: Location is not available. J:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. I do not want to format and delete all data off the hard drive, is there another way I can fix this?

Sincerely,

Cyndee Horn

⟐ Answer deleted November 18, 2020 at 4:32 MST

Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive: I can't add files to my Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive.

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:29:56 -0700

I just got a new portable hard drive, a Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB. I plugged it into my mac, and it says it can not be modified. Do I need to format it somehow before I can use it? Thanks!

⟐ Commented September 20, 2020 at 15:29 MST