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Alright, just to cover the bases before I get into my problem:
I'm running a early 2008 Apple Macbook Pro. I dual boot OS X/Windows 7, using windows basically all the time now.

I have a 1.5 year old Seagate FreeAgent 1TB external drive that has started giving me problems. It has a small partition on it for my OS X side backup, and the rest is split into 2 partitions for windows. If I plug the drive in, windows recognizes it as a device, but I can't see the drive at all in My Computer. Here's some screen shots to illustrate:






However, I've tested it using my OS X partition and all works normally. It can see my backup partition as well as one of the windows partitions (which is how it normally works, OS X can only see 2 partitions on an external apparently). To me it seemed like the drivers on the windows side were corrupt or something, but I don't really know how to delete them. Anyone know better than me?

What format are the partitions on the drive?

1 is MAC OS Extended format, the other 2 are NTFS.

*Edit* As it turns out, the OS X sides isn't seeing either of the NTFS partitions. I'm about to check if it can read the OS X partition.

sounds like they got nuked somehow. Run checkdisk on the drive see if there are bad sectors if there isn't format the free space (where the old partitions used to be) and your off and running.

This is a fairly common issue with external hard drives. That and the power supply failing on them. For $6 a lot of days you can pick up a hard drive dock from meritline.com. I highly suggest them especially if you rly on external hard drives for backups or storage of important docs.