Comments on: Seagate Technology Portable USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

By: susan

susan — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:13:51 +0000

I have the seagate 350 external hard drive. it fell over on its side and since then makes funny noise and my computer no longer can find it .can anyone help me on how I CAN FIX this problem or where I can find a way to recover all my media that I have stored on this . Since it has all my movies and itunes its my bible.please can someone help me.. lonely without my movies..susan

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:55:03 +0000

trice:

Yikes! As a Windows user turned Mac user, I’ve accidently unplugged many a USB flash drive, USB hard drive, and memory card without first ‘ejecting’ it. I’ve not run into a problem corruption yet. I’m not sure what the solution would be…

By: trice

trice — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:06:21 +0000

Review included section starting “strange passage in the user guide that warns against sharing the drive between a Windows PC and a Mac”.
I have a Seagate 100 gb external drive usb fullsize, and have it 3/4 full of data from a winxp system. Just got a Mac mini and before I thought about it hooked it up to the mac and it recognized the volume and label and displayed the included folders and files.
I stupidly turned the drive off without ejecting it from the finder window. Next time I powered up the system it claimed the drive was unreadable and needed formatting. I took the seagate over to the winxp system and got the same response that the drive was unformatted.
Now I need to find software solution to recover files off the seagate or restore directory structure. I have used Hard Disk Mechanic in the past but they claim not to work on usb external drives. Lost & Found I have also used but Symantec has done away with that along with Powerquest.
I figure I could take the drive out of the case and hook it up with ide cable and use HDM Deluxe or Gold which I have, but wanted to save that as last resort.
Any suggestions anyone?
thanks a bunch,
trice.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:15:50 +0000

Jari:

I did not know that… Thanks!

By: Jari

Jari — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:34:34 +0000

Mac’s can easily read NTFS, they just can write to it

Jari

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:05:35 +0000

Yeah, the Maxtor is quite a bit larger physically than the Seagate drive I reviewed…

By: dmccarty

dmccarty — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:24:14 +0000

Link: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?TabPage=techspecs&sku=A0441031&spagenum=&category_id=&brandid=191&k=&c=us&l=en&cs=04&mnf=&prst=&prEnd=&mnfsku=&orderby=&searchtype=&pageb4search=&page=productlisting.aspx&instock=&refurbished=

I didn’t notice the two different sizes…probably explains the price difference.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:15:02 +0000

bquin:
I’m guessing that your 4gb drive has been formated using NTFS. If so, that’s why Mac can’t read it. Macs can read FAT32 formatted drives just fine. Just like this Seagate…

dmccarty:
Do you have a link to the drive? All the 1 Touch drives I see for Maxtor are large desktop drives, not pocket sized drives like the one reviewed.

By: dmccarty

dmccarty — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:57 +0000

FWIW, I just saw the Maxtor 100GB/7,200RPM “1-touch backup” version of this thing on Dell this morning for about $130. At double the cost of the Maxtor, with worse on-paper specs, this Seagate drive doesn’t look like a very good deal.

By: bquin

bquin — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:36:51 +0000

I’ve read somewhere that the mac can read a PC formatted drive but not vice versa. Is this true? I have a 4gb PC formatted drive but I can’t get my mac g4 powerbook) to read it.

the seagate drive looks great but I want to be certain I can read it on both my PC and powerbook.

thanks…

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:48:42 +0000

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