Help needed for seagate freeagent 500gb external hdd

[ltchew]

Hi all,
i'v bought a 500gb freeagent external hdd 2 weeks ago, but for the pass 2 weeks, i've been using it as a backup for my Mac's time machine, and today when i wanna backup all my stuff on my desktop, i realise that i could not launch/find the freeagent hdd from my winXP.

After i plug the usb cable to my desktop, i could see the hdd from "safety remove hardware"..it was detected as usb mass storage device..but i just couldnt find/open it from My Computer...any bros here know wads the problem??tried to google around,but no luck getting my answer:(


p/s: under disk management, my ext hdd isnt assigned with any volume like c,d,e blablabla...and the status is healty(GPT protected partition)

[gilaboyfjs]

Hi all,
i'v bought a 500gb freeagent external hdd 2 weeks ago, but for the pass 2 weeks, i've been using it as a backup for my Mac's time machine, and today when i wanna backup all my stuff on my desktop, i realise that i could not launch/find the freeagent hdd from my winXP.

After i plug the usb cable to my desktop, i could see the hdd from "safety remove hardware"..it was detected as usb mass storage device..but i just couldnt find/open it from My Computer...any bros here know wads the problem??tried to google around,but no luck getting my answer:(


p/s: under disk management, my ext hdd isnt assigned with any volume like c,d,e blablabla...and the status is healty(GPT protected partition)

Is it like Disk 0 (ntfs or can be fat32, healthy) or Disk 1 (unallocated) from the pic below?

http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/using/setup/tips/advanced/67462-click-disk-management.gif

[ltchew]

hi..
did a screenshot on disk management..here is how it looks like
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/achewlim/untitled-2.jpg

any kind soul has the solution?? T.T

[gilaboyfjs]

try formating/deleting that partition.

[ltchew]

try formating/deleting that partition.


but when i right click..everything is grey out:(

[gilaboyfjs]

but when i right click..everything is grey out:(

then sorry, i cant help you. try going to seagate's support site, or just google around.

[commach]

No file system, no drive letter assigned, meaning this HDD is using a file system/format not recognise by WinXP.

[ltchew]

thanks bros..
i was thinking maybe its my mac turns my hdd into fat32..dats y winxp cant regconise it???just a wild guess tho..dunno much about disk storage >.<

so if thats the case..is there anyway i can format my hdd into 2 partiton..1 using fat32..1 using ntfs?

[ClementChong]

The disk is using GUID Partition Table (GPT).
So far WinXP x64 and Vista can recognise the partition on that disk.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx
Read question 13 and 14 for more information.

[ltchew]

hehe..finally use the diskpart command to format this hdd...now fmanage to split to 1 ntfs and 1 fat32...

phew..din know just a normal backup would giv me such a headache..but thanks to all the bros here..at least i learn sumthing new... ^^

[pnchan]

Does anyone knows how to retrieve data from the HD without formatting it?