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Can I use a seagate external hard drive to download movies to and watch on my PS3?

June 14, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by DM: Can I use a seagate external hard drive to download movies to and watch on my PS3? I download movies and want to play them or save them to my ps3. Do I have to convert the movie file in any way? Any suggested convert programs for this? Best answer: Answer by [...]

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I dropped my portable hard drive. Two computer people have looked at it and said the motor is not spinning.?

June 11, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 2 Comments

Question by becky p: I dropped my portable hard drive. Two computer people have looked at it and said the motor is not spinning.? I was told if the motor had one more good spin we could recover the data. Several months of karaoke downloads and no backup. Hopeing to find someone with an inexpensive [...]

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Crashed Computer

June 8, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 25 Comments

I’ve got a Mac Pro G5, and I just spent 8 hours and about 00 to fix it. Most of my videos are on external drives, but the software, iTunes, iPhoto stuff is all gone. What do you do to avoid this, and how do you recover? Incidentally it was a Western Digital drive, and [...]

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My laptop hard drive crashed the other night. Need help.?

June 7, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 6 Comments

Question by Eric D: My laptop hard drive crashed the other night. Need help.? My laptop hard drive crashed the other night. I booted it up and during the boot sequence before the desktop, it brought up the system recovery program. It said there were errors on the drive and gave me the option to [...]

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my hard drive is failing?

June 5, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by tm: my hard drive is failing? well saturday i dropped my computer. it worked all the way till sunday evening. then it started making a loud clicking noise and it would freeze.eventually it wouldn’t turn on at all, it said “no bootable drive”. but the clicking was so loud i assumed it was [...]

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Dropped my Dell lap top, any way to get information off of hard drive?

June 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 6 Comments

Question by L: Dropped my Dell lap top, any way to get information off of hard drive? I dropped my Dell laptop. It won’t turn on now other than the Caps Lock button flashes. Is there anyway to salvage any of the information on the hard drive? Best answer: Answer by John Mnot sure. call [...]

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why does my seagate free agent 500gb external drive register only 465gb?

June 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 2 Comments

Question by ian: why does my seagate free agent 500gb external drive register only 465gb? just bought a seagate freeagent desk external drive.The capacity is 500gb but when checked it only registers 465gb.I checked the files that came with the drive it doesn’t amount to 35gb.Is there a way for me to recover the missing [...]

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How do I get files out of My Documents on a crashed hard drive?

June 2, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 3 Comments

Question by mattjlee177: How do I get files out of My Documents on a crashed hard drive? My laptop crashed (Windows XP) and is unbootable (I tried everything), so I put the 2.5″ hard drive into an external USB case. I got a lot of my files back, except for the ones in My Documents [...]

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Seagate Freeagent External Hard Drive- How to use with Mac and PC?

June 2, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by Johnathon B: Seagate Freeagent External Hard Drive- How to use with Mac and PC? I have a seagate freeagent external hard drive and i’ve been using it with a PC. it’s been fine and dandy, but when I try to back up files from my macbook, it says that the freeagent can not [...]

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How to turn off a Seagate external HDD?

June 1, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by Rocks911: How to turn off a Seagate external HDD? I have a 500Gb and a 1Tb Seagate that run pretty much constantly. I need them only occasionally so what is the best/easiest/safest way to turn them off? There is no power button and they are stored out of the way so actually unplugging [...]

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