External Harddrive not recognized

[Guest]

I installed a seagate freeagent 250gb external harddrive and at first
installation it was recognezed and called drive f. After a shut down and or
restart/boot it is not recognized and an error comes up saying that one of
the usb devices installed has malfunctioned. I had my system tested and also
the external harddrive. All was declared in great working order but when I
returned home and reinstalled the external harddrive it was again recognized
and again after a shutdown and reboot it was not recognized again. When it
was tested it worked in all the usb ports. I am going nuts trying to get
this external hard drive to get recognized and stay that way. Does anyone
have suggestions?

 

[CreateWindow]

Hi,

When you get it recognised, see how it looks by opening Computer Management
in Administrative tools - go to the Disk Management icon.

Depending on your love of the supplied software from Seagate - you can
probably not use any of it.

Just format it as a primary NTFS partition using the above Disk Management
tool.
Assign a drive letter further away like "S:" by using the same tool (right
click on the drive graphic).

It may now be remembered properly.

HTH
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