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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Media with Airport Extreme version 7.6.1

I am trying to use my hard drive as a cloud storage and I cannot see it in my finder when it is connected to my airport extreme. Does anyone know how to do this?

Airport Extreme-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 16, 2012 9:39 AM

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Aug 16, 2012 8:54 PM in response to brad264

Yes, you should be able to reformat the drive. First connect it directly to your Mac, and then, you will be using the Disk Utility to format it.


Since a picture is worth a thousand (or is that ten thousand) words, please take a look at the following iClarified article to guide you in formatting your drive. It shows formatting with Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and that is exactly what you want for yours.

Aug 17, 2012 7:23 AM in response to Tesserax

I'm having a very similar problem with a Seagate external drive and Airport Extreme. I was able to set up the base station and view the disk after reformatting, and connected once from both the machines on the network. But then suddenly I am not able to see the disk on either machine, and when I try to connect to the server (base station) it gives me an error message saying the server doesn't exist.


To complicate that, the system is still working to provide all the machines on the network an internet connection.


I tried resetting and powering off and on the base station, with no effect.


Any suggestions?


cheers

Aug 17, 2012 2:41 PM in response to indiadawwg

I would suggest first verifying that the HDD can be read when connected directly to a computer. Even if it can, use Disk Utility to run both "Repair Disk Permissions" & "Repair Disk" on it to make sure that it is not corrupted in any way. If you prefer to use another utility for this, please feel free to. Please post back your results.

Aug 17, 2012 10:47 PM in response to Tesserax

Hi Tesserax,

Thanks for the reply.

As you suggested, I tried connecting my drive directly to the Macbook port. At first it was not recognized, so I powered off the drive and reconnected and the Mac connected properly. I repeated that procedure to try to connect it to the Base Station, but that didn't work.


I then ran Verify Disk and Repair Disk and received the message that nothing appears to be wrong. However, the option for Repair Disk Permissions is grayed out, so I couldn't try that.


If it gives you any more clues, I tried plugging a small (unpowered) 1 GB thumb drive into the same Base Station port I'm trying to use for the Seagate, and the machine recognized it immediately and started showing the server connection.


cheers,

Indiadawwg

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Media with Airport Extreme version 7.6.1

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