Bought this Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB on May 2013.
Have always used it inside the enclosure for ease of transport although in practice I almost never carry it anywhere. Have always noticed that it is running rather hot but reading Seagate customer service / forum ensured me that it is well inside operating range so I didnt take it out of the enclosure.
Been having some intermittent problems for the past year, probably only once a month, of the hard drive not being detected. Fiddling around with the USB cable usually fixed it so I'd assume it's just the cable being flaky or got shaken loose.
I was in the middle of watching a movie when it locks up windows. Trying to access the drive in any way locks up windows for a while, taking off and reattaching the usb cable releases the lockup and I can see the root directory of the drive and all the folders but trying to do anything with it would lock up windows again.
So as a last ditch attempt of getting some data off the drive I took it out of the enclosure (which is surprisingly difficult). The drive was quite hot and I couldnt touch it for a while then I attached it directly to the SATA port after it cooled off.
Strangely there seems to be some kind of 2TB limit so Windows 8.1 (on UEFI mobo) cant seem to read it. I'm certain this should be easy to fix but I'd like to hear some suggestions before I jeopardize the data in the drive.
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The drive should be just one big partition.
Have always used it inside the enclosure for ease of transport although in practice I almost never carry it anywhere. Have always noticed that it is running rather hot but reading Seagate customer service / forum ensured me that it is well inside operating range so I didnt take it out of the enclosure.
Been having some intermittent problems for the past year, probably only once a month, of the hard drive not being detected. Fiddling around with the USB cable usually fixed it so I'd assume it's just the cable being flaky or got shaken loose.
I was in the middle of watching a movie when it locks up windows. Trying to access the drive in any way locks up windows for a while, taking off and reattaching the usb cable releases the lockup and I can see the root directory of the drive and all the folders but trying to do anything with it would lock up windows again.
So as a last ditch attempt of getting some data off the drive I took it out of the enclosure (which is surprisingly difficult). The drive was quite hot and I couldnt touch it for a while then I attached it directly to the SATA port after it cooled off.
Strangely there seems to be some kind of 2TB limit so Windows 8.1 (on UEFI mobo) cant seem to read it. I'm certain this should be easy to fix but I'd like to hear some suggestions before I jeopardize the data in the drive.
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The drive should be just one big partition.
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