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Seagate Freeagent: "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer"
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1014155" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Which FreeAgent do you have? Looking at Seagate's website, they have a couple different <a href="http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/" target="_blank">FreeAgents</a>. Not knowing anything about them other than what's on Seagate's website, it looks like some might require a power adapter (FreeAgent Desk and Xtreme) and some look to be small enough (FreeAgent GO) to be bus powered. I could be wrong but it looks like there are both.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I evidently can't research and type fast enough.</p><p></p><p>Different FS = different filesystem. Have you tried formatting it as FAT32? I know it's already formatted that way but I just want to see if you can format it at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1014155, member: 71075"] Which FreeAgent do you have? Looking at Seagate's website, they have a couple different [URL="http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/"]FreeAgents[/URL]. Not knowing anything about them other than what's on Seagate's website, it looks like some might require a power adapter (FreeAgent Desk and Xtreme) and some look to be small enough (FreeAgent GO) to be bus powered. I could be wrong but it looks like there are both. EDIT: I evidently can't research and type fast enough. Different FS = different filesystem. Have you tried formatting it as FAT32? I know it's already formatted that way but I just want to see if you can format it at all. [/QUOTE]
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