I bought what I believe is this HDD, but instead off Ebay for cheap. Formatted it with EaseUS to Fat32 with 32 sectors. (I noticed although there's no files in the drive, there's still about 700mb used up. Is that another partition? Or like, Seagate's HDD settings hidden in the drive?)
As I was transferring files to it, after not too long the transfers stop midway through because the drive is experiencing an "error"... Because of this, I only got smaller files and games on it so far, I can only do a little at a time before I have to safely disconnect and plug it back in before it errors, at which point I can't even safely eject it.
As far as I'm aware, Seagates have a feature that times them out, or "spin down," I think it's called. So I downloaded and installed Seagate Drive Settings from the website, but it doesn't even detect that the HDD is connected at all... I tried connecting it before opening the program and waiting, after opening the program and waiting, over and over and it just doesn't see it. (Also before, I had installed SeaTools as well, but it fails to complete its "Long General" scan of the HDD. The Short scan worked fine, though.)
All this to say, does it still play games? Yes, thank goodness!
On my Wii, WiiFlow detects it and its games just fine, I had Chibi-Robo! on idle for the past hour and it hasn't timed out or whatever at all. Just now tried out Wii Sports, works just fine too.
So, now my sole concern is how I'm going to get the rest of the games on there, especially bigger ones like Smash Brawl because it'll error before the transfer could finish...
I tried some solutions from these two pages, but I don't feel comfortable attempting them all. Some of them seem a bit unnecessary even.
https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/seagatemaxtor-manager-stops-detecting-the-drive-208575en/
https://windowsreport.com/seagat-hard-drive-windows-10/
So I'm at a loss. Should I attempt some of those solutions, or perhaps I was just sold a dud? Very open to any suggestions!
As I was transferring files to it, after not too long the transfers stop midway through because the drive is experiencing an "error"... Because of this, I only got smaller files and games on it so far, I can only do a little at a time before I have to safely disconnect and plug it back in before it errors, at which point I can't even safely eject it.
As far as I'm aware, Seagates have a feature that times them out, or "spin down," I think it's called. So I downloaded and installed Seagate Drive Settings from the website, but it doesn't even detect that the HDD is connected at all... I tried connecting it before opening the program and waiting, after opening the program and waiting, over and over and it just doesn't see it. (Also before, I had installed SeaTools as well, but it fails to complete its "Long General" scan of the HDD. The Short scan worked fine, though.)
All this to say, does it still play games? Yes, thank goodness!
On my Wii, WiiFlow detects it and its games just fine, I had Chibi-Robo! on idle for the past hour and it hasn't timed out or whatever at all. Just now tried out Wii Sports, works just fine too.
So, now my sole concern is how I'm going to get the rest of the games on there, especially bigger ones like Smash Brawl because it'll error before the transfer could finish...
I tried some solutions from these two pages, but I don't feel comfortable attempting them all. Some of them seem a bit unnecessary even.
https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/seagatemaxtor-manager-stops-detecting-the-drive-208575en/
https://windowsreport.com/seagat-hard-drive-windows-10/
So I'm at a loss. Should I attempt some of those solutions, or perhaps I was just sold a dud? Very open to any suggestions!
