2024-04-19

seagate external drive

How to Install a Seagate External Hard Drive As Internal?

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Seagate External Hard Drive Seagate is a popular brand of hard drive, both external hard drive and internal hard drive. Hard drives are versatile pieces of equipment that can be used as both portable or stationary mediums for storage. If you have an external hard drive that you want to convert into an internal hard drive, this can be accomplished easily using a screwdriver and some basic knowledge of the inner workings of a computer.

Step 1. Ensure that your current computer can support the external drive. If you currently have an IDE drive installed in your tower, your external drive must be IDE as well. This is the same for SATA drives. You can locate your hard drive specs on the hard drive label itself.

Step 2. Unscrew the support screws on the external drive using your screwdriver. Unplug the cord that connects the hard drive to the case. Gently slide the drive out of the case and place it to the side.

Step 3. Unplug the computer tower from all devices and power sources. Lay the tower on a flat level surface to serve as your work space.

Step 4. Remove the sides of the tower and lay aside. Locate the hard drive, which is normally located under the CD-ROM drive. Unscrew the support screws and unplug the wires leading to the drive. Gently slide the drive from the tower. Set the drive aside.

Step 5. Insert the Seagate drive that you removed from its external case in Step 2. Replace the supporting screws and carefully plug the cords back into the appropriate areas. Ensure everything is tightly secured and then replace the sides of the tower.

Note: If you are not sure whether your drive is IDE or SATA, take the components to your local computer store and have then examine and identify the parts for you.

You will most likely need to format the new hard drive in your computer tower before use. Back up all information on the hard drive and then format the drive. By backing up your information, you can then replace the data on the new drive.

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Can I use DiscWizard to setup my Seagate external hard drive?

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DiscWizard DiscWizard can be used not only to format ATA and SATA drives, but external Seagate drives connected to the computer through USB, Firewire, or eSATA as well.  Though the setup procedure is almost the same as that used with internal drives, you want to be aware of a few of things:

  1. Unlike previous versions of DiscWizard, in addition to being able to use DiscWizard for Windows to set up an external hard drive, you can now also use the bootable version of DiscWizard for the same purpose.
  2. The external drive(s) can be identified by its interface type, which is listed in the “Interface” column of the Add New Disc Wizard.
  3. DiscWizard can only be used in Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.  For Windows 98 and Me, you will need to use FDISK and FORMAT instead.
  4. Because their connections have slower sustained transfer rates than internal ATA and SATA connections, partitioning and formatting USB and Firewire hard drives may take longer than usual.
  5. All other step are the same that you would see when preparing an internal hard drive.
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Why doesn’t the button on Seagate external drive launch a backup?

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Common reasons the button won’t launch a backup:

BounceBack Express must be installed for the button to function. Insert the CD that came with your Seagate External drive and install the software. If it was installed, allow it to remove and reinstall the software. Be sure the choose the YES option when it asks if you have an external drive.

The backup won’t run if all jobs are disabled. Any jobs you want to run must be enabled. Go to the settings area of BounceBack Express by clicking the BounceBack program group on the Windows Start menu (or BounceBack folder in the Mac Applications folder). Click the BounceBack Settings icon. In the settings window highlight the job you want to enable and click the Enable button at the bottom of the window.

The backup won’t run if all jobs are scheduled to run at a specific time. If a job is scheduled to run at a specific time then it will be inactive except at that time. If you want to schedule a job and be able to run the job when you push the button then simply create two backup jobs with the same characteristics, but don’t schedule one of the jobs.

The backup won’t run if no jobs are configured (if all jobs are removed or deleted). If all of the jobs have been removed then a new job will need to be created for the button to have anything to do. Just add a new job by clicking the ADD button in the settings window and choose a source and destination and any options you wish.

BounceBack has been disabled or closed (by right clicking the system tray icon). If you right click the BounceBack icon in the Systray and choose to close it (Windows users) then it will not run. Launch the BounceBack Express launcher from the BounceBack Express program group to enable the button again.

BounceBack was installed to one interface (USB or 1394) and now the drive is using the other. During installation of the BounceBack Express software a program is setup to monitor the USB or 1394 bus for a signal from the button. If you switch from 1394 to USB or USB to 1394 then the monitor will need to be setup again by uninstalling and reinstalling the BounceBack Express software.

The drive is not plugged in or powered on. If the drive is not plugged into the computer properly or if the drive has no power then the button will not respond. Power off the drive, disconnect the USB / 1394 cable, plug the cables back in and turn the drive power on again.

There is a problem between the drive and the OS. Go to device manager on your computer by right clicking My Computer and selecting the manage option. Then go to the Device Manager item. Check that your host adapters and drive are not reporting any problems. If the USB or 1394 host adapter is showing under other devices you will need to load drivers. Service pack 1 in Windows XP and service pack 4 in Windows 2000 add support for many USB 2.0 host adapters, other host adapters may require special drivers from the vendor. The Seagate external drive should be automatically detected once the host adapter is configured, except in Windows 98 where drivers are required. These drivers for Windows 98 can be found on the CD that shipped with the drive, or they can be downloaded from seagate USB Windows 98 drivers page.

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