Hi guys,
Brought a 500gb seagate freeagent external drive about 3 weeks ago. It's USB2. All working fine (had it shared across network and was storing a fair whack of media on there)... everyone was using it fine!
Anyway, yesterday I sat down, opened one of my folders and files i'd added recently (< 2 days ago) had gone! :s... Everything else was working fine, I put it down to someone deleting em by accident..
Anyway, I disconnected the drive and rebooted, and ever since it won't show up!. I can hear it spinning up and the light is on, but I get no sign of it in My computer.
I've took the network cable out so my computer is off the network, and re-tried to no avail. I've tried it on another PC, no avail.
The USB connected thing is on in the bottom right, if I double click so I can see what it is and remove it safely if I wish... it takes about a minute and then shows up, and I can see everything. If I try to remove it it takes a while but then eventually says "Unable to stop, a program is accessing the device.."
If I leave it connected for a while it eventually shows up in MyComputer, but I can't click on it, just freezes up.
Any ideas? Programs I can use to access? I'm thinking it's got something to do with the permissions that i've set on the drive for some reason :S
Losing all this data will be a pain in the ass
Brought a 500gb seagate freeagent external drive about 3 weeks ago. It's USB2. All working fine (had it shared across network and was storing a fair whack of media on there)... everyone was using it fine!
Anyway, yesterday I sat down, opened one of my folders and files i'd added recently (< 2 days ago) had gone! :s... Everything else was working fine, I put it down to someone deleting em by accident..
Anyway, I disconnected the drive and rebooted, and ever since it won't show up!. I can hear it spinning up and the light is on, but I get no sign of it in My computer.
I've took the network cable out so my computer is off the network, and re-tried to no avail. I've tried it on another PC, no avail.
The USB connected thing is on in the bottom right, if I double click so I can see what it is and remove it safely if I wish... it takes about a minute and then shows up, and I can see everything. If I try to remove it it takes a while but then eventually says "Unable to stop, a program is accessing the device.."
If I leave it connected for a while it eventually shows up in MyComputer, but I can't click on it, just freezes up.
Any ideas? Programs I can use to access? I'm thinking it's got something to do with the permissions that i've set on the drive for some reason :S
Losing all this data will be a pain in the ass
