- #Seagate backup plus hub 4tb portable external hard drive install#
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- #Seagate backup plus hub 4tb portable external hard drive windows 10#
Notice that although this is on a different system, the bands identical.
#Seagate backup plus hub 4tb portable external hard drive windows 10#
Next, I installed Macrium Reflect Home with a 30 day trial on my laptop, an i7 running Windows 10 1903, and when I plugged in one of the two Seagate drives, I saw the same kind of weird band. It still was slow scanning, and the directories "broke" after Macrium ran. Since these drives came factory formatted, I formatted one of the drives, and nothing changed. Notice that although the band widths and white gaps are different, the numbers in the bands are identical for both drives. These two drives are single-volume external drives. Here is what I see: This is a very strange display. Once the scan completes and I look at the graphical "Create a Backup" bands, all the drives on the system look "normal" except the two Seagate drives. While it's stuck on it, I can't view the drive contents, and other parts of Windows becomes unresponsive. When Macrium loads and scans disks, it takes forever scanning the Seagate drive. I spent a few more hours trying to figure out a pattern, and while I didn't come up with a solution, I did get more information to add to the pile. If no one has a solution or can replicate the problem, that would be my next step (trouble-shooting 101). I was hoping not to do that if I could help it.
#Seagate backup plus hub 4tb portable external hard drive install#
What I have not done is install Macrium on another system and try the drives there. The same behavior was observed on all the various connections. I also checked for hardware updates (motherboard drivers), I updated my motherboard BIOS, swapped cables, moved to USB ports handled by different controllers (my motherboard is an ASUS ROG Maximus with both Intel and Asmedia USB controllers). It's possible there's a link between the two. In fact, these issues began around the time I upgraded to 1903 from 1809, but I can't say for sure that the timing matches.
#Seagate backup plus hub 4tb portable external hard drive update#
Has anyone else run into this problem? Any suggestions for a solution? Thanks in advance for any help.Īny chance there's a firmware update for these drives? Or if you're running Windows 7 rather than something newer, an update for your system's USB 3.0 drivers? (Newer versions of Windows just use Microsoft's built-in USB 3.0 support.) I searched for new firmware yesterday, and there is nothing available from Seagate.
Again, my normal Seagate and WD drives (without integrated hubs) are not affected, and it doesn't matter where anything is plugged in. The only common denominators in this are that both affected drives are Seagate Plus Hub external USB 3.0 drives, and this happens during Macrium scans of the drives. I have a standalone USB 3 hub on the system, and that doesn't appear to be affected, nor are drives attached to that hub. I've moved the drives around to different USB ports on my system, and they all behave the same. I've also disabled all power saving options per USB device. I've tried all the various VSS options available, but that doesn't seem to be related to the problem. However, previously unvisited folders can't be opened, and any files on the drive are unreadable or the folder contents show as empty, even though I know that files are in that folder.
If I've visited the drive earlier and navigated around, I can still open the folders and see the directory listings after Macrium runs. However, I'd like to be able to use the 8TB drive as a backup destination for obvious reasons. I have a couple of portable WD drives plugged in, and I just added a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus (without hub) to the system, and it is working fine as the backup destination. This only happens with this particular model of external USB 3 hard drive. The drives include the backup destination drive, but it ALSO includes a completely separate data drive that is neither being backed up nor used as a backup destination. During this scanning step, both of my Seagate drives become unresponsive. When Macrium runs, either interactively or in the background, it scans all the drives in the system.
These drives include two USB 3 ports, so it acts as a mini-hub in addition to being an external hard drive. I have a strange compatibility issue between Macrium Reflect Home and a couple of external 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub external drives.