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freeagent xtreme, help!
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it wont even let me reformat it, its not showing up on my desktop or in disk utility!
is it no good?
FreeAgent Xtreme with Mac
Thanks NedLear & Dizzee for posting your experience with this drive. I too had purchased the FreeAgent Xtreme for use with my mac. The drive wouldn't show up on the desktop nor in disk utilities. It doesn't have a power switch so I wasn't for certain if it was on or off. But after reading your thread I unplugged the power from the back of the drive a couple of times and it came on. My new 1.5TB is now reformatted with disk utility for my mac and running great! Thanks for your posts here.
Thanks NedLear & Dizzee for posting your experience with this drive. I too had purchased the FreeAgent Xtreme for use with my mac. The drive wouldn't show up on the desktop nor in disk utilities. It doesn't have a power switch so I wasn't for certain if it was on or off. But after reading your thread I unplugged the power from the back of the drive a couple of times and it came on. My new 1.5TB is now reformatted with disk utility for my mac and running great! Thanks for your posts here.
Glad to hear it worked out for you GoingForward.
I have the 500mb Xtreme. I did get it reformatted, yet, I still have too much trouble getting it to mount. I don't use it.
Seagate Support says
"Unfortunately this drive is specifically supported for Windows operating systems only. We do not have any MAC drivers. You are correct we have Free Agent drives specifcally taylored for MACs and I would suggest these. However you may be able to get this drive to work by using your Disk utility to repartition and format the drive but we do not support this ourselves."
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I have the 500mb Xtreme. I did get it reformatted, yet, I still have too much trouble getting it to mount. I don't use it.
Seagate Support says
"Unfortunately this drive is specifically supported for Windows operating systems only. We do not have any MAC drivers. You are correct we have Free Agent drives specifcally taylored for MACs and I would suggest these. However you may be able to get this drive to work by using your Disk utility to repartition and format the drive but we do not support this ourselves."
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seagate freeagent xtreme problem on g5 mac
I thought i'd update our progress.
I did get to use the hard drive on the firewire port for a while and it seem to be fine as long as i didn't let the sleep mode bother me.
I left my mac on just in case the drive didn't mount again. Well, I eventually needed to restart and I lost it. I couldn't get it to mount through firewire again and the g5 started freezing and the fans would take off (let a jet)
It does mount on the usb port so all is not lost.
If anyone has a work around please pass it on. I wish I had the money to throw the drive through the window of the front office of seagate, but alas. I'll just sit here...sorry, i'll leave it for my twitter account
I thought i'd update our progress.
I did get to use the hard drive on the firewire port for a while and it seem to be fine as long as i didn't let the sleep mode bother me.
I left my mac on just in case the drive didn't mount again. Well, I eventually needed to restart and I lost it. I couldn't get it to mount through firewire again and the g5 started freezing and the fans would take off (let a jet)
It does mount on the usb port so all is not lost.
If anyone has a work around please pass it on. I wish I had the money to throw the drive through the window of the front office of seagate, but alas. I'll just sit here...sorry, i'll leave it for my twitter account