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just bought a seagate external portable drive 320 gb and was able to transfer all my picture, music and document files, but after 2 weeks when I plugged in my portable drive it lit up (the greed led bulb) and kept emitting a beeping sound and the drive never opened in my pc. When I brought it to the retail store they tested it and it functioned properly and the clerk even showed me my files.. when I returned home again it just went beep without showing up in the pc.. can anyone help me with this predicament?

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just bought a seagate external portable drive 320 gb and was able to transfer all my picture, music and document files, but after 2 weeks when I plugged in my portable drive it lit up (the greed led bulb) and kept emitting a beeping sound and the drive never opened in my pc. When I brought it to the retail store they tested it and it functioned properly and the clerk even showed me my files.. when I returned home again it just went beep without showing up in the pc.. can anyone help me with this predicament?

 

 

try to test your usb port voltage, and plug the the two USB female plug to have a more stable voltage going to your HD :thumbsupsmiley: D.

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try to test your usb port voltage, and plug the the two USB female plug to have a more stable voltage going to your HD :thumbsupsmiley: D.

 

 

found the problem, it has to do with the cable, I don't know what's the diffrence but when I used a usb cable which I use for my cellphone the portable hard drive worked....Thanks anyway for your kind suggestions sa uulitin po

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found the problem, it has to do with the cable, I don't know what's the diffrence but when I used a usb cable which I use for my cellphone the portable hard drive worked....Thanks anyway for your kind suggestions sa uulitin po

 

 

 

had a same problem with my Ext HDD culprit was the usb cable...it seems lumuluwag yung connection.

replace your cable. mura lang naman eh.

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320gb is the UNFORMATTED state...

 

I believe the filesystem used the 23gb when FORMATTED...

 

Same lang halos tayo nung Buffalo 320gb ko (NTFS)...

 

The filesystem isn't using 23gb. Some guy in marketing caused this problem a long time ago.

 

Most numbers in a computers go back to a 2 to the power x number.

 

1 Kb is 1024 (2^10) bytes

1 Gb is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1.073.741.824 bytes

 

Now what they use in marketing harddisks & usb drives actually anything that has storage is

 

1 Kb = 1000 bytes

1 Gb = 1.000.000.000 bytes

 

That where your difference comes from. So you think you buy 1.073.741.824 bytes per Gb but in fact you buy 1.000.000.000 bytes oer Gb.

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