How to Reset a Seagate External Drive. External drives are as susceptible to viruses as internal drives. Some malware are designed to infect and spread via USB storage devices. In some cases ...

Both the Go Flex, and the Essenial lines from Seagate are easily opened, but they have fragile clips which WILL break. So, you can easily gut the drive to get the mechanism, but the case is junk.

The Seagate Seven ships in a slim, padded box that contains the hard drive, a black fabric-covered USB cord to connect the drive to a computer, and a Quick Start Guide.