How to open a 1.5 TB Seagate FreeAgent Desk External Hard Drive
I bought two of these on sale at costco for $130, which happens to be the same price as an OEM drive straight from seagate. Basically, you get an enclosure for free. However, I wanted it as an internal drive; many people do this. Only problem – it’s not very straightforward on how to get the enclosure open. I searched online and failed to find any tutorials on how to do so. Therefore, I figured it out myself and am putting this video on here for anyone else who would like to know how to do this.
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then u put yer hdd …
then u put yer hdd dwn yer ass…lol:D
what about if my …
what about if my freezer is broken as well? lol
try go to cmos and …
try go to cmos and change the bootdrive to the one who have the operating system…hope it will help…goodluck and God bless
@thisameniss Your …
@thisameniss Your power supply might not have been strong enough. That’s the symptom that usually matches that result. Did you try stripping power to all other devices?
Bought two of these …
Bought two of these hard drives to back each other up and lost both during a recent move. I’m a motion graphics guy and I lost a lot of grad school work, fun stuff, my life. One of the HD’s mini USB has fallen into the casing and the other just isn’t turning on (power source issue I guess) I have a Mac, can I just remove the actual HD and place it into my G5 desktop?? Any help would be appreciated before I tear into these things on my own. Thanks!!
thanks a lot.. you …
thanks a lot.. you made my job easy !
Thnx felumilu for …
You also must be careful with the unclasping of the front side, which has 4 clips that can be accidentally broken
Thnx felumilu for your useful comment. I’ve already opened it. I also have to say that I used simple paper cutter and it opened it easily without damaging the plastic cover at all (no folds or scratches). That means that if you use the HD as you like and you reassemble the parts of the external HD, the previous opening won’t be recognizable and the warranty will be valid
I am planning to …
I am planning to buy a new and exactly the same HD with the same part number and MLC / DCM and replace the burned circuit. The problem is that the specific model (barracuda 500Gb) is being used by seagate only in external hard drives and I’ll have to buy another freeagent. At least, I hope that it will work. I’ll make this attempt next weekend and I’ll inform about the results
I opened the …
I opened the plastic casing too hoping that direct connection of the drive to my pc would work, but it didn’t. I connected it to 2 different pcs. The result, each time I connected my HD, was that my pc wasn’t starting up. When I was pressing the start button of the pc, the led of the tower lighted up for just some miliseconds and nothing else was happening. Probably the cisrcuit of the casing works fine and surely the circuit of the HD has been burned due to oveload.
i just opened the …
i just opened the casing n i found my hdd to be a barracuda 7200.11 vich is a faulty drive declared by seagate (mine is 1TB)..i av sent a mail to the seagate regarding this..am awaiting their reply…lesse what happens…i would suggest you to send an email to seagate if urs is barracuda 7200.11 coz seagate has announced free data recovery fr barracuda 7200.11 hard disks..coz these r turning out to b faulty majorly..hope both of us get our data back..and others whu r facing the same prblm
ohh dats sad to …
ohh dats sad to hear…i hope sumthin comes up and you get back yer data..all the best man…if u can get yer hands on sumthin do temme…..
Tried the freezer …
Tried the freezer thing a few weeks ago. It didn’t work. Don’t know what else I can do myself to recover the data. I don’t want to go through a data recovery service. All this from it tipping over onto carpet. Seagate is pathetic. Thanks for the help though. Any other suggestions are welcome.
u can try putting …
u can try putting yer drive in the freezer and then connecting it to yer machine again…my seagate hdd crashed..tho am yet to open it up…bt someone suggested me this trick of putting it in the freezer..he sys sumtimes the metal parts r loose n on puttin them in the freezer the metal parts cntract and it gets wrking again..bt slwly it will fail again..then u need to cool it again….u cn try this..tho i am yet to try this myself…all the best..keep me posted bout yer results if u try..thnk u
u dun need to….if …
u dun need to….if u av disassembled the thng u can connect it to the SATA connectors available in the market….n u can use it evn with yer laptop…just as we use internal hdds with our laptops…:-)
Well, no I cannot : …
I just spoke with one assistant. His last words were:” We do not have parts for replacement, as we replace the whole unit as I mentioned above”
Well, no I cannot
Yes you can
Yes you can
Possibly I burned …
Possibly I burned the red circuit of my external freeagent HD. Does anybody know if I can order just the circuit from seagate?
please help me i …
please help me i can’t open it its too hard and i keep breaking the clips
I have the same …
I have the same issue. used it less that 10 times, put all my data on it. Left it on a shelf unplugged for about a month, and now all I get is a slow blinking light and a spinning drive that’s not recognized.
Thanks alot, this …
Thanks alot, this helped louds. I was trying to figure out the best way to open it up without messing anything up. Mine came open a little easier than yours for some reason xD
i bought a 1.5tb …
i bought a 1.5tb freeagent and the next week it died.. can i use a new seagate barracuda with this case as an internal hdd
Okay so i got a …
Okay so i got a maxtor a very long time ago in 3006 or 07 and we lost it then found it a in 2008. we tried the external drive usb it was defective. But when i cracked open my maxtor drive i saw the internal drive. So why waste so much money buying one whil yo ucan get a external drive tahts brokeb? and the internal drive inside its case was working so i kept it a back up. it was 300 gb i popped it in to my computer and it works.
I’ve purchased one …
I’ve purchased one of these and they are horrible. I used it 3 times to back up some files. It then sat for about a month powered off. I plugged it back in to copy some other files to it and the pc does not recognize it. It keeps prompting for a driver. I tried this on 3 pc’ s and a laptop, and still get the same results. This is the second one that has gone bad.
Could they POSSIBLY …
Could they POSSIBLY make this more convoluted or difficult to deal with???