Comments for Seagate FreeAgent Go - Portable USB External Harddrive

Comment from Maurie on 2010-03-02

2010-03-02T22:45:29Z

Recently purchased one of these Seagate 500gb drives for backup purposes and find it absolutely wonderful and easy to use, especially not having to use an external power source.

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Comment from Dave Bressette on 2010-03-02

2010-03-02T16:59:32Z

Will this work on windows 7 64 bit as is? Or do I have to erase the sofrware first? If I erase then will it work on win 7 64 bit?

The drive will work with almost any OS. The software that's included on the drive is not required to use the drive. I typically save it off somewhere and then erase it from the drive.

03-Mar-2010

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Comment from Richard on 2010-03-02

2010-03-02T16:49:34Z

I have three of these drives which I move between my 64 bit, 32bit and my laptop. They are wonderful - never any problems in swapping between systems, or your problem, June.

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Comment from Carl Jackson on 2009-11-26

2009-11-26T17:42:19Z

I use a Seagate Freeagent Go for my backup. Should I leave the Seagate drive plugged into the computer?I also use Win7 and it seems to work fine. I have not tried a restore.

There are arguments for leaving it plugged in (you don't have to remember to plug it in to backup), and for leaving it unplugged (certain types of failures could corrupt the backup), so there's no single answer here. I leave mine plugged in.

27-Nov-2009

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Comment from June Holt on 2009-11-24

2009-11-24T15:10:17Z

I tried the Seagate external drive, but my computer would not recognize the drive after the first use and would not back up my files because of "hidden files" in my system. I returned the drive and can't get the software off my computer. I uninstalled it, but the Seagate icon is still in the navigation. The program does not show up in my remove programs area. How can I get this junk off my computer?

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Comment from Steve on 2009-08-15

2009-08-15T18:37:26Z

I use Seagate FreeAgents to backup Windows 2003 Servers. I've tried other ext usb drives and have had problems. The FreeAgents work great! I do a complete backup each night (over 72 gigs) and it takes about 2 hours using Backup Exec 12.5. (Note: Seagate said they don't make an ext hard drive for Windows severs - but FreeAgents work great!)

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Comment from Susan on 2009-08-12

2009-08-13T04:11:53Z

I personally have a seagate and would not do without it! When I purchased it, my purpose was to put all my music, photos and pictures there. It more than came in handy when my computer was discovered to have more than 100 viruses!

Two important things to keep in mind:

1) the external drive could fail - it happened to me. That means that if your data is only on that external drive, you could lose it all. The solution: backup. Make sure you have at least two copies of your data on different drives and/or in different places.

2) viruses can and do travel to external drives. If your machine had 100 viruses, it wouldn't surprise me at all if some had migrated to the external drive, and then migrated on to the next system you plug that drive into. Recent viruses have been known to propagate this way extensively.

13-Aug-2009

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Comment from Robert ODonnell on 2009-08-12

2009-08-13T03:51:14Z

Hi Leo, I have a Seagate and was wondering. Can you save Appplication such as Programs. I want to move Photoshop and Dreamweaver to another machine? Help and thanks in advance...Bob

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Comment from vincent on 2009-08-12

2009-08-12T09:28:57Z

Personally I can recommend the western digital passport drives.
Same concept as the freeagent and they work very well.
I use the included backup software which has saved my life on a couple of occasions :-)

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Comment from bill on 2009-08-11

2009-08-11T15:30:11Z

one of the comments said it would not work with 64bit. is the comment...
Works great so far BUT...3
I am using this hard drive to back-up my computer and so far it works great. The only thing that prevented me from giving it a 5-star rating is that software updates won't install on my computer because I'm running Vista 64-bit Home Premium. Seagate only supports Vista 32-bit. No where on the packaging or in the specs for the unit is this poined out, in fact it specifically says that it is compatible with Vista.

For the record: I do not use any of the software that comes with the drive. After archiving a copy I actually erase the drive before using it.

12-Aug-2009

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