Europe bought Seagate Freeagent - safe use in N. America?

[Guest johndrake939393@gmail.com]

Hello,

 

I purchased a Seagate Freeagent Desktop in Europe (Sweden), a 250 gb,

and I would

like to safely access the data already stored on the drive in North

America, specifically

Canada. The voltage in Europe was 220v, the voltage in Canada is

110v. I own a voltage

converter that's safe for up to 50 w, and I have an adapter plug to

use the European adapter

plug in a North American outlet. However, the bundled adapter from

Seagate bought in Europe

says it's rated for 110/220v.

 

How I safely access the data on the drive in North America? Does the

Seagate adapter

already have a converter/transformer built in? And all I need to do

is use the adapter plug ?

 

Or should I plug in the adapter from Seagate into the adapter plug and

then into the voltage

converter?

 

Anyone who has done this before and uses the drive from overseas

safely, is preferred.

 

I contacted Seagate (18007324283) and forget it. The India call

center doesn't know anything,

and I waited 1 hour. I went into a live chat session with Seagate

afterwards, and there was no

improvement.

 

Thank-you !

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Europe bought Seagate Freeagent - safe use in N. America?

 

If you get it working, Windows XP will read it just fine.

 

johndrake939393@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I purchased a Seagate Freeagent Desktop in Europe (Sweden), a 250 gb,

> and I would

> like to safely access the data already stored on the drive in North

> America, specifically

> Canada. The voltage in Europe was 220v, the voltage in Canada is

> 110v. I own a voltage

> converter that's safe for up to 50 w, and I have an adapter plug to

> use the European adapter

> plug in a North American outlet. However, the bundled adapter from

> Seagate bought in Europe

> says it's rated for 110/220v.

>

> How I safely access the data on the drive in North America? Does the

> Seagate adapter

> already have a converter/transformer built in? And all I need to do

> is use the adapter plug ?

>

> Or should I plug in the adapter from Seagate into the adapter plug and

> then into the voltage

> converter?

>

> Anyone who has done this before and uses the drive from overseas

> safely, is preferred.

>

> I contacted Seagate (18007324283) and forget it. The India call

> center doesn't know anything,

> and I waited 1 hour. I went into a live chat session with Seagate

> afterwards, and there was no

> improvement.

>

> Thank-you !

>

[Guest dobey]

Re: Europe bought Seagate Freeagent - safe use in N. America?

 

"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> If you get it working, Windows XP will read it just fine.

 

I think that's the stage he want's to get to.

 

I assume this is an inline AC adapter.

 

The adapter is rated 110/220v, which means it can be used in countries with

110v or 220v power supplies.

 

110/220v is the input, the output will be 5/12v regardless. If it has the

generic 2 pin socket from the wall into the adapter you could just use lead

of a similar type that was handy, but your unit may be hard wired.

 

I'm not sure about Seagates power sockets into the drive, but If you are

tempted to use an AC adapter for another brand of external HDD, don't.

 

Most external enclosures I have seen use a round plug that looks like an

s-video plug. On the back of the adapter you may see a diagram indicating

the voltages supplied to the pins in this plug. They are not all wired the

same, even though they may fit in another enclosure. If the wiring diagram

is the same then there should be no problem. Admittedly I have only had

dealings with generic enclosures. Saegate may use thier own exclusive plug.

 

Most PSU, etc are auto-sensing, or are made to deal with global variations.

So I don't see any problem provided your power supply is within the 110/220v

range. Even higher or lower would still work, but higher would shorten the

life of the adapter.

 

We have 230v here and in the days when monitors had the voltage switch on

the back, occasionally someone would get curious and the magic smoke would

escape ;-)

 

BTW this isn't really an XP question, (hence the unhelpful reply from BoB

I), you could have asked at your local electronics store.

>

> johndrake939393@gmail.com wrote:

>

>> Hello,

>>

>> I purchased a Seagate Freeagent Desktop in Europe (Sweden), a 250 gb,

>> and I would

>> like to safely access the data already stored on the drive in North

>> America, specifically

>> Canada. The voltage in Europe was 220v, the voltage in Canada is

>> 110v. I own a voltage

>> converter that's safe for up to 50 w, and I have an adapter plug to

>> use the European adapter

>> plug in a North American outlet. However, the bundled adapter from

>> Seagate bought in Europe

>> says it's rated for 110/220v.

>>

>> How I safely access the data on the drive in North America? Does the

>> Seagate adapter

>> already have a converter/transformer built in? And all I need to do

>> is use the adapter plug ?

>>

>> Or should I plug in the adapter from Seagate into the adapter plug and

>> then into the voltage

>> converter?

>>

>> Anyone who has done this before and uses the drive from overseas

>> safely, is preferred.

>>

>> I contacted Seagate (18007324283) and forget it. The India call

>> center doesn't know anything,

>> and I waited 1 hour. I went into a live chat session with Seagate

>> afterwards, and there was no

>> improvement.

>>

>> Thank-you !

>>

>