Drive external hard Seagate won't let me assign a drive "letter".

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  Thank you for using communities of Apple Support.

  From your post, I see that your drive external hard seagate was pulled from the socket during backup with Time Machine, and now it is not recognized by your MacBook Pro. I know how it is important to ensure that you are able to connect your external drive to your Mac. I have something I want you to try.

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  On Sunday, August 3, 2014 20:49:55 + 0000, CEDGR1208 wrote:

  I was using a disk external hard seagate to store pictures. All of a sudden, it wants me to format the drive. If I do this, will erase all my photos? Is anyway around that I wouldn't lose thousands of photos.

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  If you have only one copy of all the files that are important to you,
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  are always in danger of losing. It is always possible that a hard
  car accident, near Thunderbolt, user error, virus, attack the same
  stolen computer, can result in the loss of everything on your drive.
  As it has often been said, it is not a question of whether you'll
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  OS X support NTFS natively, but read-only.

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  I just got the last of Seagate site, but it is still pretty new. The Info said taking in charge until Mavericks only.

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• Assign a letter to drive/path to an external hard drive.

  I have a hard drive to external with the files that it contains, and it does not appear in 'Computer' so I spent in disk management and tried to assign a path/drive letter and when I go to that option is grayed out and won't allow.

  Hi ConorM,

  If the external hard drive is not detected, try to connect the external drive to another PC to check if the device works.

  To resolve this problem, delete the UpperFilters registry value and the LowerFilters registry value. These values may cause access problems. To do this, follow these steps:

  Important The method below mentioned steps show you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/) how to back up and restore the registry in Windows.

  1. click on Start, type regedit in start search and press enter.

  2. Locate and then click the UpperFilters registry value. This value is located in the following registry subkey:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

  3. on the Edit menu, click delete, and then click OK.

  4. search for and then click the LowerFilters registry value. This value is located in the following registry subkey:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

  5. on the Edit menu, click delete, and then click OK.

  6. exit the registry editor.

  7 restart the computer

  After restarting the computer, check if the drivers are getting detected.

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K.
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Windows 7 won't recognize the external hard drive

  I had to install windows on my laptop again, so its new facility now. Installed all the drivers and updates, connected my seagate 1 TB hard drive in it and it will not be displayed in my computer. He worked on this laptop until I reinstalled windows. I've lived a lot of discussions about this, and none of the solutions have worked. It appears in Device Manager and in disk management. It is not a drive letter assigned and it won't let me assign one, it is grayed out the only option I have is to help. I downloaded partition Wizard mini tool and assigned letter through it still doesn't appear in my computer or have the letter assigned in disk management. don't see the drive in diskpart in cmd (as some people suggest to change the letter here.) can anyone help please I'm going out of my mind because this hard drive has info on I need to don't want to lose him.

  It is displayed in the Device Manager as healthy, not corrupted and is online.

  Thanks for responding.

  I just convert to gpt on the mbr to the mini program partition and it is now recognized by windows. and all files are there.

• Windows 7 asks Me to format the Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive I've used for more than a month

  I used Seagate FreeAgent as my external hard drive for more than a month now, but recently I am unable to access Windows 7 asks me to format it to use it. Somehow I can format the HDD without losing my data?  Or does perform a work around?

  Hi NuVille,

  Before perform us any of the steps, first of all I suggest you to create a backup of the data stored in your external hard drive on another computer.

  To save the data, you can connect your external hard drive on another computer and copy all the files and folders on the other computer. Later, you can connect the external drive to the Windows 7 computer and try to run the disk error checking and check if that helps you solve the problem.

  Access the link below and follow the steps to check the drive for errors and fix it.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors

  After completing the disc you error checking, try to check if you can access the drive.

  If the steps above do not I suggest you try to format the hard drive. Access the link below and follow the steps to format the hard drive.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

  Note: there is no way to format without losing any data on the disk. Formatting the drive will erase all data.  This is why you must back up the data before formatting the hard drive.

  I hope this helps. Let us know the results.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Srinivas R Microsoft technical support.
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• Seagate external HARD drive expansion will not identify Windows 7 x 64. OK in a first time and fine on Vista x 86.

  Recently installed Windows 7 Home Premium x 64 Vista Home Premium x 86. Under Vista, everything was fine. Less than 7, my Seagate expansion (1.5 TB) hard drive initially was recognized (I have iTunes library I can't play to prove :)) after a few days using 7, however, I lost the external HARD drive. I get the error message is "software device driver is not properly installed." In Device Mgr, it says it's an "unknown device" with the yellow! triangle. "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) "appears in the details of the device. No updated drivers are available. Windows updates are up to date, nothing helps. Restart, reinstall, restore driver, deactivation, nothing works. Tried to update my BIOS, but it is already the latest version of Dell. Trying any other Dell Update, what it offers is the Download Manager, but not actual updates I select. I'm not allowed to use this player all of a sudden, after that it worked fine for a few days!

  Specific features of the system are as follows:

  Name of the operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
  Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
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  Manufacturer of operating system Microsoft Corporation
  System name PHIL-PC
  System manufacturer Dell Inc.
  Inspiron 530 s model system
  System Type x 64-based PC
  Processor Intel (r) Pentium (r) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00 GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2 Lossnay, 2 logical processors
  BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.0.18, 24/02/2009
  SMBIOS 2.5 version
  Windows directory C:\Windows
  System directory C:\Windows\system32
  Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
  Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385".
  Physical memory (RAM) installed 4.00 GB
  Total physical memory 4.00 GB
  2.54 GB available physical memory

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  All this occurred within three days of using Windows 7 x 64, so I don't think there is a previous restore point to go back to. However, I would not I install updates to be rendered unusable and allow my system, and their insecurity. And, as stated in my original post, I have gone through the drivers to uninstall or disable normal, remove, reinstall, etc. etc. without help.

  An update my original post, I finally got the unit of work, although not as fast as it was in Vista x 86. I did back up the device to a laptop from Vista Home Premium I have, let it load the drivers it needs, and then after reconnection to 7, it has been working well, but overall slowly in read/write functions and clicking on a lot more than he did primarily when operating. What I went through get this thing to work, I think that the currently loaded driver is for a 32 bit OS, and there is no update (again) for 64-bit. I leave it alone, because it is functional, and if it is not recognized after the next set of Windows updates, I guess I have to restore to a previous image.

  Dell doesn't seem to have anything for her, and Seagate plans explicitly on their site that they don't provide drivers for this HARD drive while referring to Microsoft or the manufacturer of the equipment for drivers.