That will zero the sectors that hold partition informatoin, and return the disk to an unformatted state. It shoild then ask if you want the quick or full test. I'm still waiting for them to get back to me since we've exhausted all the standard solutions. Download Western Digital's Lifeguard program (Windows), and use it's write-zeros 'advanced' test.
Seagate have tried a lot of different things to troubleshoot without result. My MBP is wirelessly connected to my home network, although as part of Seagate's Tech Support troubleshooting I have also tried direct ethernet connection. Double-click the GoFlex icon on the desktop (it may take a minute for the icon to appear). Click Don't Use if a TimeMachine prompt appears. I have separate static IP addresses set up for both the GoFlex and the LaCie ED mini. Connect the GoFlex drive to the computer. The GoFlex and the LaCie ED mini are connected to my home network via ethernet cable to my ISP's standard issue router - Netgear DG934G. This privileges issue seems to be the root cause.
I successfully FTP-ed the files across, however this is a short-term fix and other problems occur when using iTunes and Time Machine to back up. I have approx 300GB of media files on the LaCie to transfer, so using the GoFlex internet upload utility is out of the question - unless I want to lose my sanity. Newer Seagate and LaCie branded external drives come preformatted with the exFAT file system, which allows it to be used on both Mac and Windows without reformatting the drive. I don't have this problem with the LaCie, but they both run Hipserv administration software. This article explains about file systems and provides instruction to format a drive on Windows and Mac. I just get an error message saying I do not have the right privileges to perform the action. The main issue is that the GoFlex drive will not allow dragging and dropping files to it from Finder. I want to change the sleep mode to 30 mins.
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I want to use it with Manual Copying of Files only (no automatic backups that the drive come with).
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I currently have a networked LaCie ethernet disk mini home edition, which works fine except the AC power brick has a tendency to fail and is expensive to replace, hence the switch. How to Format a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2 TB: I have a brand new Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2 TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive STAC2000100. I'm looking for any advice or suggestions to resolve an issue I am having with file transfer using a newly purchased 1TB Seagate GoFlex Home network storage solution.
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