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8. Managing Your Media Player and Connected Devices
Checking Drive Status
When you install Seagate Media, a status icon appears in your system tray and becomes
active whenever you connect a FreeAgent drive or external USB drive to your computer.
Figure 14:
Seagate Media: Status Icon
Roll your cursor over the icon to quickly check the status of your drive. The color of the icon
shows drive status:
Icon Color
Blue
Green
Gray
Yellow
Red
Finding Drive Information
To find detailed information about your drive:
1.
Open the My Drives window (see page 48), select the drive you want, then click Drive Info.
The Drive Information window opens, displaying this information:
•
Serial Number
•
Firmware version
•
Volume (the name of your drive)
•
Capacity
•
Free Space
•
File System (the Windows file system used by your drive)
2.
Click OK to close the Drive Information window.
Media Player User Guide
Status
Drive connected
Drive connected; sync idle
No drive connected
Sync in progress
Sync failed
Note: When a sync fails, the status icon stays red until
a sync is completed successfully.
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