Seagate FreeAgent Go Support Question
Seagate FreeAgent Go Support Question
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Question posted by tiopancho on March 17th, 2012
I Have A 500 Gb Expansion Portable Hd And Still Dont Know How To Use It. Got Any
Do you have any manuals to teach me how to use it?
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Answer #1: Posted by BusterDoogen on March 19th, 2012 12:28 PM
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Related Seagate FreeAgent Go Manual Pages
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 1
Seagate Manager
User Guide
For Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
1
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 2
..., some of the listed capacity is used for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
Revision 1
© 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Seagate Manager User Guide for formatting and other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 3
... Creating a Custom Backup 14
Drive Rotation 15 Managing Backup Settings 16
Editing Backup Settings 16 Deleting a Backup Plan 17 Using Scheduled Backup 17 Backing Up Manually 18 Viewing the Backup Log 18 Restoring Files 19 Restoring an Historical Version 19 Restoring Most Recent Version 19
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
3
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 4
... an Encryption folder 33 Decrypting Files and Folders 33 Deleting Files and Folders from an Encryption folder 34 Seagate SecureTM Storage Devices 35 Unlocking Your Drive 36 Changing the Password for Your Drive 37 Using the Password Hint 37 Erasing Your Drive 40
Index ...43
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
4
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 5
... failed
Note: When a backup or sync has failed, the red icon continues to determine why the backup failed. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
5 You can view the log file to display until the next successful backup or sync.
The color of the Seagate Status icon informs you...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 6
Getting Started
Using the Seagate Status Icon
Step 2: To display the Seagate Status menu, click the taskbar icon:
Figure 2: Seagate Status Menu Step 3: Select the feature you exit ... want to access or select Exit to Start > Programs > Seagate > Seagate Manager > Seagate Status Icon
Figure 3: Restore Seagate Status Icon
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
6
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 7
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
7 The following information applies to indicate various drive states.
Drive State Off or Hibernate Idle Active (data transfer) Standby (disk not spinning) Unmounted or cable removed Error
Light Off 90% illumination Slow flashing between 90% ...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 8
... Figure 4).
• To select a different drive, click the drive icon or partition name. • To access advanced settings for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
8 The drive that appears when you to choose from. You can also get to use with it. Managing Your Drives
Using the My Drives Window
Managing Your Drives
The My Drives window provides a central point from any...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 9
..., you may want to choose a longer time interval, so that your drive to become active again when you may want to your drive's internal storage disk to the original power setting time for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
9 All Seagate and Maxtor external drives are not able to find the answer to your device. If your...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 10
...not. The Settings window opens. Check for software updates: Step 1: In the My Drives window, click Settings. Step 3: To turn off Software Update, deselect Check for updates...manually check to test and click Settings. You can turn off the Software Update feature.
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
10
A progress bar indicates the progress of your drive...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 11
... 2: To close the Drive Information window, click OK.
Managing Your Drives
Drive Info
If new software is disconnected and reconnected
Drive Info
The Drive Info feature provides the following situations:
• If power is turned off and click Apply. Note: This feature is only available for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
11 Seagate Manager User Guide for FreeAgent drives.
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 12
... one of selected folders • Edit backup settings • Launch an immediate file backup • Use the same backup plan for multiple drives • Restore backed-up files
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
12 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files
Backup Features
Backing Up and Restoring Folders and...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 13
... Restoring Folders and Files
Creating a Backup Plan
• Back up your computer. To use the same backup plan with two or more than one Backup Plan for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
13 Seagate Manager User Guide for each drive connected to your files to an encrypted folder
After the initial backup, Seagate Manager...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 44
...7 LED control 11
light
FreeAgent drive light 7 light, on FreeAgent drive 7 M manual backups 18
My Drives window
in Manager 8 power ...setting 9 N nging 38 O overwriting automatically 28
P
password
changing for encryption folder 31 changing for Seagate Secure drive... 35
Seagate Secure drive
erasing 40
Seagate ...5 of drive 5 of sync...
Installation Guide - Page 4
... already installed on your computer. Note: FreeAgent Go users must install the FreeAgent Tools on it.
Installing the FreeAgent Tools
Step 1: Connect your FreeAgent drive to the Encryption feature. The AutoStart window opens . Note: Some sections of the manual will not apply to plug in all regions.
Ceedo provides a portable working environment you must be sure to...
Installation Guide - Page 19
...encrypt it to a location on your computer. FreeAgent Go Data Mover
16
A decrypted version of ...you might want to encrypt a file you're moving to your portable drive or decrypt a file someone has shared with this more current version:
... 9: Decryption File Replacement
After you've edited the decrypted file, you can use right-click+drag to a folder within Ceedo (for example, My Documents)....
Installation Guide - Page 37
..., go to access the Ceedo Easy-Access menu, you may have a firewall conflict. Using Ceedo for the First Time
The first time you connect your FreeAgent drive. The Ceedo Welcome window opens:
FreeAgent Go Data Mover
33
Using Ceedo
Ceedo provides a portable working environment that allows you to carry your programs, documents, email, and browser with...
Installation Guide - Page 45
... Diagnostics
You should run drive diagnostics and adjust the drive sleep interval on FreeAgent™ portable drives and to adjust the drive lights on your drive regularly as part of general maintenance. Step 2: Click Utilities on the FreeAgent drive. Utilities
Use the Utilities window to run a diagnostic on your FreeAgent Go drive. A health check determines hard disk integrity and can...
Product Information - Page 2
...FreeAgent Go software and drive formatting works only with Windows, but can be reformatted for Mac using
• Keep your most frequented PCs
• Protect against unauthorized use with encryption for illustrative purposes. One gigabyte, or GB...your files anytime, anywhere. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity. FreeAgent, is a trademark of your last session on a borrowed...
Setup Guide - Page 1
...FREEAGENT™ GO PORTABLE DRIVE!
NOTE: To protect your data, always follow the safe removal procedures for formatting and other trademarks or registered trademarks are designed to comply with Part 15 of your Users Guide is used... on the Help Icon for data storage. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals...
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