Howdy everyone. I have found tons of great advice here and I'm not getting anywhere on the support site for Seagate. Their new forums are ^%$@^$$^ rediculous!
Here is the situation in point form:
- Was watching a movie that is on the GoFlex drive, via my WDtv device on the home network
- drive started making clicking sounds
- image on tv froze
- turned everything off
- turned everything back on
- seagate drive began making a series of 3 "clicks" and "whirrrrr" sounds.
- WDtv device could no longer interface with seagate drive
- Seagate Dashboard software on laptop said that the "storage unit is not connected to the GoFlex device" ie the base unit the hard drive enclosure sits on to connect via LAN cable and to power the unit.
- My Computer (windows xp) now said that the 2TB hard drive had a Total of 211MB with 54.3MB being used.
- I can access the GoFlex Home via the IP addressed asigned by the router, BUT Seagate Dashboard can no longer see the device.
- Connected directly to my laptop and the LAN doesn't see it either.
I don't have a desktop computer, otherwise I would take the drive and connect it there in SATA. I don't know LINUX at all and even tried to learn some of it using VirtualBox and Xubuntu. No dice...I'm just not good enough. One other person suggested that the device seems to be loading the Flash Ram only and could be fixed via LINUX, but as I said, I just can't.
Does anybody else have any suggestions?? Do ya? PLLLLEEEAAASE!
Thanks in advance.
Here is the situation in point form:
- Was watching a movie that is on the GoFlex drive, via my WDtv device on the home network
- drive started making clicking sounds
- image on tv froze
- turned everything off
- turned everything back on
- seagate drive began making a series of 3 "clicks" and "whirrrrr" sounds.
- WDtv device could no longer interface with seagate drive
- Seagate Dashboard software on laptop said that the "storage unit is not connected to the GoFlex device" ie the base unit the hard drive enclosure sits on to connect via LAN cable and to power the unit.
- My Computer (windows xp) now said that the 2TB hard drive had a Total of 211MB with 54.3MB being used.
- I can access the GoFlex Home via the IP addressed asigned by the router, BUT Seagate Dashboard can no longer see the device.
- Connected directly to my laptop and the LAN doesn't see it either.
I don't have a desktop computer, otherwise I would take the drive and connect it there in SATA. I don't know LINUX at all and even tried to learn some of it using VirtualBox and Xubuntu. No dice...I'm just not good enough. One other person suggested that the device seems to be loading the Flash Ram only and could be fixed via LINUX, but as I said, I just can't.
Does anybody else have any suggestions?? Do ya? PLLLLEEEAAASE!
Thanks in advance.