Performing Seagate FreeAgent Data Recovery
– New Collection of FreeAgent GoFlex for Mac External Drives Are Designed for Mac Enthusiasts While Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility. January 4, 2011 – Addressing the personal preferences of the Mac community, Seagate today introduced a new collection of GoFlex™ for Mac external hard drives designed to make it easy for those who use Mac OS X and Time Machine to backup, shuttle.
The ultra portable external drive FreeAgent GoFlex manufactured by Seagate is very popular. External Seagate drives are fast, reliable offer huge storage capacity. Ability to store large amount of data like pictures, music, videos, games, different app and many more. Seagate FreeAgent Goflex offers numerous advantages compared to other external HDDs. Seagate drives protect your data and privacy; can conveniently run on any Windows and Mac Operating System. Though it provides various benefits but these high end external hard disks are also prone to data loss problems. If you have lost vital data from your Seagate hard drive, then don't panic as you can restore lost data very easily by employing Remo Partition Recovery, a reliable data recovery program in just few minutes.
Most noted data loss scenarios on Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex hard drive:
There are wide range of factors due to which you may come across data disaster on your Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex hard drive memory storage volume. Few of them are briefed below:
Seagate has outed a new range of hard-drives at CES 2011, including the company’s slimmest drive to date, the 9mm thick GoFlex, and a range of GoFlex for Mac drives compatible with Apple’s OS. May 24, 2011 The Seagate GoFlex Ultra-portable Drive for Mac ($219.99 list) is a capacious monster hard drive for backing up your Apple Macintosh desktop or laptop. It has 1.5TB of hard drive space, more than. In File Explorer right click on This PC, Map Network Drive. The name of the share is GOFLEXHOME GoFlex Home Backup. Put in the credentials (user and password) from when you first set up the GoFlex. If you don't know these, you'll have to reset the password. See information in the link below and also google around for how to do that.
- Virus attack: If Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive is connected to virus infected PC to transfer some data then it causes corruption to external hard drive that result inaccessibility and enormous data disaster.
- Inappropriate data deletion: You may lose significant data from Seagate FreeAgent storage partition in case you accidentally choose vital file while removing unwanted stuff.
- Formatting: To overcome from corruption issue or any format errors on Seagate GoFlex external hard drive user intentionally / unintentionally format the partitions that leads to data loss.
- Improper usage of GoFlex external hard drive: Using the same Seagate drive on multiple Windows platforms or abruptly ejecting the external HDD may damaged the file system of GoFlex external hard drive resulting in data loss.
Apart from the above listed scenarios, there are even many other reasons like file system corruption, human mistakes, etc. Whatever might be the reason for data loss from Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex hard drive, you can get back data by using efficient data recovery tool named Remo Recover.
Performing GoFlex external hard drive data recovery on Windows using Remo Recover toolkit:
An award winning software, Remo Recover is fully capable to rescue data from Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex HDD under any critical data loss situation. The built-in automated recovery engine scans deeply the entire drive carefully and with the user friendly intuitive interface get back lost data effortlessly in just mere seconds. The Well-organized data recovery utility helps to sort the recovered files according to date, file name, extension, size, etc. You can check the efficiency of the wizard prior buying the product by using the free demo version in which you can view the file contents but to save the restored file you have to purchased its full licensed version.
Soem of the most amazing features of Remo Recover tool are listed below:
- The most beneficial data recovery software that easily restore all lost or deleted data from Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external hard disk.
- Recover data from partitions formatted, even after rebooting or even when the external disk has crashed or fail to boot.
- Ability to retrieve any type of missing data including documents, songs, videos, photos, archives, etc from GoFlex external hard disk drives.
- To evade bad sectors, it create disk images from which you can get back file contents without any difficulty.
- Program find and rescue data from different HDD interfaces such as SATA, IDE, PATA, SCSI, etc. at an ease.
- Recovers data from Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external drive running on different Windows OS with FAT16, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system.
- Utility supports variety of hard drive brands like Transcend, Toshiba, Dell, SanDisk, Lenovo, HP, Hitachi, Kingston, Fujitsu, Quantum, etc.
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Steps to Recover Seagate FreeAgent Data:
Step 1: Download, install, and run the free version of Remo Recover software on your system. Connect the Seagate FreeAgent hard drive to the system in which you have installed the software. From the main screen, Choose 'Recover Partitions' option. Next, you will see a list of available logical and physical disk drives in the system. Choose the Seagate disk and hit 'Scan' button
Figure A: Main Screen
Step 2: Now, the software scans the Seagate disk to find all it's partitions. Once scanning is completed, it displays the list of found partitions along with their file systems. Choose the required partition which you want to recover and click 'Scan' button to start the recovery process
Figure B: Choose a partition to recover
Step 3: Upon the completion of scanning and recovery process, it displays the recovered files in 'Data View' and 'File Type View'
Figure C: File Type View
Step 4: Prior saving these recovered files, you can preview each of them by just right-clicking on the file, and choosing Preview option
Figure D: Preview Recovered Files
Step 5: Finally, if you are satisfied with the tool, then activate the license key and save the recovered files at the destination location of your choice
Figure E: Save Recovered Files
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“I backup all my important data in Seagate FreeAgent Goflex external hard disk which has a capacity of 60GB. Today all of a sudden, this device is not getting detected on my Mac. I tried to get files from it by connecting it to other computers, which didn’t work. If anyone has an idea on how to restore data from Seagate FreeAgent Goflex on Mac system, then please share with me. Thanks in advance!!!”
FreeAgent Goflex is an external hard disk newly introduced by Seagate. This drive is available in the range of 60GB to 3TB capacity. Seagate also manufactures other models of hard drive like FreeAgent Desk, FreeAgent Go, FreeAgent Pro, etc. The reason for above kind of situation might be that your FreeAgent Goflex got corrupted. Now think once, what will happen if you suddenly lose access to your FreeAgent Goflex due to its corruption?
- If lost data is the only backup of your important files, then it’s a big challenge
- If it contains any PPT’s or any office files that you need urgently, then your situation would be very worse
- If your Mac system is already dead and it is the only backup that you got
Let us know what makes a Seagate FreeAgent Goflex drive undetected on Mac:
- Removing FreeAgent Goflex from Mac system or other devices without using “eject” option
- Using same Seagate FreeAgent goflex hard disk on different OS based computers like Mac, Windows, Unix, etc
- Logical errors like presence of bad sector, corrupt file system, etc.
The only recommended solution for above kind of situations is using data recovery tool.
Software to recover data from FreeAgent Goflex HDD on Mac:
Use Yodot Mac Data Recovery software to come out from all the above mentioned conditions. This software can easily restore data from Seagate FreeAgent Goflex when not recognized on Mac OS X. Addition to FreeAgent Goflex, it can retrieve files from other models of Seagate external hard disk which are mentioned above. Further, it helps data recovery from Seagate Seven portable drive. Apart from dead external hard disk, it can retrieve data from non bootable, formatted/reformatted /repartitioned volumes on Mac computer. It can support data recovery from HFS+, NTFS, HFSX, FAT and exFAT drive. To speed up scanning process, it contains two scanning options like “Volume recovery” and “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery”. Depends on option you select, it will start scanning. In addition to Seagate FreeAgent external hard disk, it can retrieve data from other brands of external hard drive such as LaCie, Iomega, SanDisk, LG, Kingston, Sony, etc. This utility is compatible with various versions of Mac system such as Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite.
Procedure to get back data from FreeAgent Goflex drive on Mac machine:
- First connect Seagate FreeAgent Goflex external hard disk to a Mac system
- After that, install Yodot Mac Data Recovery software on Mac machine
- Then run application and follow onscreen instructions to restore data from FreeAgent Goflex hard disk
- First, it will show two options such as “Volume Recovery” and “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery”
- Select first option to start recovery process
- Wait for few minutes till scanning is finished
- Then, retrieved files will display in two view such as ‘Data View’ and ‘File Type View’. Finally, save files to a desired location other than source (same FreeAgent Goflex)
Important Note!!
- Be careful while connecting or removing FreeAgent Goflex external hard disk from other electronic gadgets
- Feel free to contact 24x7 technical support team if you find any difficulty while performing data restoration process