On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Dan Smith <dan.smith225 at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a NTFS related question... I bought a Seagate Xtreme FreeAgent 1tb > drive. My question/problem is.. I had partitioned the drive as one chunk and > started to move data to this parition as my WD mybook is failing. I plugged > in the free agent yesterday and the drive would not attach to the system. > Though yes, I am running Vista for the moment, that isn't the problem. I > think it was a bad drive in the free agent. My question to the group is > there any free/opensource apps to view the drive and attempt to extract any > files from it? > > Thanks, > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > I've seen the Enclosure hardware fail often on the FreeAgents. If you're not going to try to get it replaced by warranty I would say crack it open, yank the drive out and try to mount it without the enclosure. I've had two do something similar to your's in under a year. -- Donovan Niesen