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I have a Seagate Freeagent 1TB Backup Storage drive that I have been using with my iMac 27" desktop. I started with OSX 9 and have upgraded in stages, latest being El Capitan. All along I have presumed that my Freeagent drive was sort of a huge thumb drive, and used it like one. There was an icon on my desktop right next to the HD icon, and whenever I wanted to back up something, I would simply drag a copy into the Freeagent icon. Whenever I opened up the Freeagent icon, sure enough.... all of the stuff I had dragged in there was there.
My iMac 27" just died. Gray screen of death, which will not open up to anything else regardless of what I do or try.....
I expect that I'll be getting a new iMac, but in the interim I am using a couple of older ones, one an iMac SE which is probably 20-some years old, and this one, an IMac G5 which is perhaps 10 years old. Both of these old computers have OSX 10.4.11.
My Problem - I have hooked up my Freeagent backup drive to each of these expecting to find an icon on the computer desktop, which when opened would contain my backed up information. But I get nothing. No icon. It is as if nothing is hooked up at all. I have had the Freeagent drive for awhile and I can't seem to locate any manuals (or software discs?) that came with it.
????? Any ideas on what I need to do to be able to access my backed up data? And to use the Freeagent drive with these other computers? And with my new one if and when I get it?
My iMac 27" just died. Gray screen of death, which will not open up to anything else regardless of what I do or try.....
I expect that I'll be getting a new iMac, but in the interim I am using a couple of older ones, one an iMac SE which is probably 20-some years old, and this one, an IMac G5 which is perhaps 10 years old. Both of these old computers have OSX 10.4.11.
My Problem - I have hooked up my Freeagent backup drive to each of these expecting to find an icon on the computer desktop, which when opened would contain my backed up information. But I get nothing. No icon. It is as if nothing is hooked up at all. I have had the Freeagent drive for awhile and I can't seem to locate any manuals (or software discs?) that came with it.
????? Any ideas on what I need to do to be able to access my backed up data? And to use the Freeagent drive with these other computers? And with my new one if and when I get it?