Freecom Usb Drivers
Posted : admin On 03.01.2020Since earlier this evening, my Freecom 400GB external hard drive (bought in 2007) will not appear in my list of hard drives, so I cannot access the very important files I have saved there. I am running Windows XP and the Freecom unit has always worked fine until now.I have tried all the usual things such as checking the USB cable is connected, switched the power on and off, rebooted my laptop, etc but nothing seems to work. There does not appear to be anything wrong with the hard drive itself, though who knows?Any other suggestions?Edit: I don't see it anywhere in 'Computer Management' either i.e. Not under 'Device Manager', 'Disk Management', 'removable Storage' etc. Click to expand.Good afternoon,I tried all three USB ports with a flash drive and all three ports are working. I also just tried all three USB ports with the HDD itself and it worked on all three ports.So yes, it looks like a failing HDD rather than it being anything wrong with my laptop. I haven't done enough testing to say for sure, but the HDD appears to work fine (for a while) when it is first turned on, but then goes on to fail after a while.
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Would it be overheating or something?I guess I will move the important files off the HDD and save them online. I need something to store my downloaded films and music on, though, so it's a shame that I will need to buy a new HDD unless I can figure out a way to repair this one. Hi MacGuffin,I was doing some research online and found your posts. I hope you're still about.I have a similar problem with the same Freecome 400GB HD, also purchassed in the UK and would like to know how it all ended for you.At the moment I feel like you did 'guess I have learned my lesson - keep important files online, and just use the external hard drives for downloads'.It also looks like a mechanical failure but for me it starts almost normally, the disc turns and the light comes on; it shows my files when I access it. Go into Computer, right-click the C: drive and select Properties. Under the Hardware tab you will see a list of storage devices. Does it give a Freecom model number for the Freecom drive, or does it give the HD's model number itself?For example your main HD may be model STxxx or WDCxxx for Seagate or Western Digital brand HD.
Now, the freecom drive has someone else's brand HD inside. I want to know if it shows in the list as Freecomxxx or if you have an entry for another manufacturer like WDC or ST or Hitachi where you were expecting Freecom.
Greetings, MrWriter, and welcome to MajorGeeks.Don't know if MacGuffin is still around or not.1. The fact that you are able to 'see' the data leads me to believe that the data may not be corrupt, and that the data may indeed be salvageable.2. A couple of data recovery labs you might try contacting are and, both of which offer free estimates - if nothing else, you can get an idea about how much it'll cost you to have a forensics lab break down the platters and copy the data.Have you tried mounting the drive in a desktop and accessing it as a slave device?.Oops!
Sorry, sach2 - didn't see you there! Nothing for now but running different diagnostic softwares. Apparently there aren't any issue with the driver needing updating etc.
I found some more useful information on here'Samsung hard drives are well-known for their factory firmware problems. Factory Firmware is stored on the disk platters in the so-called System (Service) Area of the hard disk. If one of the disk modules becomes corrupted the whole hard disk micro-operating system can't boot up, the drive cannot initialise correctly and thus stops working.
If you attempt to boot up from such a Samsung hard drive or read any data from it you would get 'Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter' or 'Primary Master Hard Disk Fail' or 'No operating system found' or 'USB Device malfunctioned' error or 'S.M.A.R.T. Capable But Command Failed' or some other BIOS error.
Currently there is no way to fix this type of firmware corruption at home. It is quite a complicated procedure and requires use of specialised expensive equipment and deep knowledge of hard drive design and data recovery technology.' So I'm preparing to take my wallet out.
Reading again, I think you should go with Caliban's advice and open the freecom USB case, remove the HD and attach it to a desktop as a slave drive to a working OS. Then try to copy whatever you can to to the desktop's HD. This would eliminate the USB connection and give you a better chance of copying the files.I was originally looking for diagnostic utilities for the Samsung drive, but if the HD is clicking you have a mechanical problem and running the extended tests on the drive may be just enough to kill it completely. (I'll leave links to utilities because I have them.
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Samsung ESWin or Drive Manager from should work on the drive but I see no mention of ability to repair errors and we already know the HD is failing. Running the utilities will just put unecessary stress on the HD.)One other thought is to try a small live Linux distro running from CD or USB drive to see if it has better luck accessing your files. Sometimes linux will read files where Windows won't. Puppy linux is sufficient for your purposes and can run from CD. You would download a 160mb ISO file of puppy linux burn it to a blank CD then boot a computer from the CD and see if it can access the freecom drive (either internally or through USB). If you wanted to try that I could give more detailed instructions.
After 8 years of success the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first mainstream storage product based on ‘SuperSpeed' USB 3.0.After 8 years of success the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first mainstream storage product based on 'SuperSpeed' USB 3.0.Buyers will be interested to hear that the new external Hard Drive XS 3.0 doesn't cost the earth at £99 (approx $160) for a 1TB drive, even though that excludes the £22.99 for a desktop PCI-bus controller necessary to make it work at its intended throughput. Laptop users can pair it with a £25.99 plug-in PC Card to achieve the same effect. BrandPost Sponsored by HPECombine the agility and economics of HPE storage with HPE GreenLake and run your IT department with efficiency.The company is also supplying drivers to make USB 3.0 work with Vista and XP. Windows 7 should have 'native' drivers from not long after launch, or users will hope so.
Apple is not yet supported by the XS 3.0.As upgrades to 3.5 inch external drives go, this one looks like a good deal. USB 3.0 boosts the theoretical data throughput of USB storage devices to 4.8Gbit/s from USB 2.0's now rather tardy-sounding 480Mbit/s.
Even taking in account protocol overhead, that should still dramatically reduce data transfer times at a moment when larger files sizes are starting to become commonplace. 'We now can transfer a 5GB movie in just 38 seconds - it's unbelievably fast,' said Freecom's managing director, Axel Lucassen.
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Assuming that USB 3.0 scales proportionately, USB 2.0 would have transferred the same file in six and a half minutes.Lucassen also put his finger on another application that should be boosted by the arrival of USB 3.0, namely transparent encryption. Download windows 10 terbaru. 'The Hard Drive XS 3.0 also outperforms the competition in terms of security. Our USB 3.0 solution will have high-speed hardware encryption with AES 256 bit - this is not only the fastest but also the safest storage solution on the market,' he said. Check out and learn whether.Built-in encryption is a well-kept secret of many of Freecom's portable external hard drives, but the technology has struggled to fulfil its promise due to worries over throughput. External hard drives using integrated encryption have a deserved reputation for being slow, and the interface is one factor in that.USB 3.0 is designed to have other advantages such as the ability to power more powerful devices straight off the SuperSpeed bus, getting round the need for a power adaptor for certain classes of device. Power draw is one of the reasons why external SATA hard drives have never taken off. USB 3.0 can also cut power drain when those devices are not in use.More generally, to permeate every type of computing device, USB 3.0 will need native support at OS level.
That is the point of USB of whatever generation. Users can plug in a range of devices and they will just work without extra software being a necessity. Having to load a driver for every USB interface or device is clearly no more than a stop-gap solution.As far as storage goes, it's been the '3.0 week' all round, Seagate having announced the designed to raise internal hard drive bus performance.This story, 'Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive' was originally published byTechworld.com.