The lost USB-HDD.

My computer is a Presario 2500. Until the day before yesterday, I had only a quite small USB-HDD at 80 GB (an internal drive in a USB-casing.)

So I bought a Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB with 16 MB cache, installed the Seagate FreeAgent Launcher and everything was hunky dory. Until I decided to do some cleaning.

On the Seagate HDD there was some folders and some files that I put in a new folder called "FreeAgent-stuff". But now the HDD wouldn't turn off automatically when the computer is turned off, but shone brightly on. So I restored the folders and files to their original position. And rebooted the computer.

But now the connection to the Seagate HDD was random at best. I got some message that the drive needed to be connected to a quicker connection and there was some overwiev of a USB-hub with 4 (unused) ports. Quite amusing, beacuse the computer has only 3 USB-ports and I'm not using an hub.

And do note that during all these digital tantrums, my 80 GB-HDD worked flawlessly. (And yes, I've checked the connections of the Seagate-HDD.)

So please computer geek squad, help me solve the riddle of the lost USB-HDD!

You'll have to install Opera:

http://dis.4chan.org/www.opera.com

Uh, no! I've already have IE, Firefox and Opera on my computer.

Try some qualifying steps to troubleshooting:

1. Another cable, preferably shorter.
2. Another port amongst your 3.

You might also want to borrow a friend's powered hub and plug it into that.  There could be a port-power problem, but that's just grasping at straws.

(Ignore the Opera-fag.  He posts that just to be funny.  Your web browser has nothing to do with this issue.)

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/freeagent/

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