Comments on: Imation Apollo 500GB 2.5" Portable Hard Drive

By: bontex

bontex — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:11:02 +0000

i am using Apollo 2.5″ portable HDD for a while but now it just stopped working. the blue lights is on that means it is on but still my laptop does not recognize it. is there any thing i can do about it?

By: Christian Sepulveda

Christian Sepulveda — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:01:56 +0000

6 months from purchase date the 500gb apollo from imation failed… apparently self check goes ok (doesn’t get stuck powering up), but as soon as it gets plugged to the data stream, it gets stuck reading the header i guess…

i wish i knew it had a samsung hd inside… i’ve had such horrible experience with samsung drives that i would have walked away from the deal…

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:25:57 +0000

i have had mine for a while and have had the same problem as a lot of people, the blue light goes on when you plug it in and just stays on. if you listen to the hard drive, it makes a consistent sound that you would expect from a fully working one and the computer makes a noise when it is plugged in like when you plug anything else in (kinda like a boodoo) but nothing happens and it is not in my computer at all.

By: Ghose

Ghose — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:15:27 +0000

I have three 250 GB Apollo 2.5″ HDD. These are light weight, nice looking, sleek etc etc. But these became useless when I upgraded my OS from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Can any one including the manufacturer will suggest the remedies if any at all. Thanks.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:47:54 +0000

Detection Issues. I reformatted my 320GB Imation drive last night (NTFS), and now it cannot be detected in my home Vista machine, my home Mac, 2 PC’s at work (one running XP and one running W2K), but can be detected in a work PC running Vista.
It’s the same symptoms everyone else having – where blue light comes on, slight whirring noise, but just not detecting.. It worries me that Imation provides a Y usb cable – one end for data and one end for Power – knowing full well that doing this, they are announcing that it would require a good amount of power for it to work. Many drivers only have a I cable and work just fine.
Seeing the comments on here and being fully aware of my own circumstances, I just feel the engineering going on at Imation is sub-standard and they have a poor QA dept.
Not sure if I can use this drive anymore for anything important.. Think I’ll leave it to gather dust and search out a new drive (certainly not from Imation)!

By: james braselton

james braselton — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:09:10 +0000

hi there when will intel or apallo release there usb extrnal 600 gb solid state flash drive 100 extra gegabytes and no spinning platters eather i wounder how fast a 600 gb ssd would back your computer up

By: ALVIN

ALVIN — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:07:00 +0000

how to repair my External hard drive 500GB Apollo.please help me..i have lot of important files in my hard drive..

By: alvin

alvin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:22:02 +0000

i have a problem using my hdd apollo 500GB it wont detect in my computer what should i do???please help me..email me…sarangheriz@yahoo.com

By: keke

keke — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:40:33 +0000

crappy drive! i have had the shittiest luck regarding technology in these few months.First my laptop broke down so i recovered all the “important” files like over 20 gigs of photos and so on to my Apollo.First it worked fine with my new laptop (with windows 7) but all of sudden it stopped working (of course before i had the time to transfer the files to my new laptop) the proplem is this.I connect the harddrive to my computer.It works fine for like 1-2 minutes then it seems to disconnect(it dosent say its disconnected or anything)?! so i cant really trasfer anything “big” out of there becouse it disconnects before it is tranferred.i have tried it with different USB cables but no luck.Any suggestions? i dont think it my computer but i will try it with other computer as soon as i can and i will get back here to tell how it went.

By: Kristofer Brozio

Kristofer Brozio — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:38:57 +0000

To those that can’t access the files or are having problems with the enclosure… the easiest thing to do is take it out of the enclosure and hook it up to your computer, then you can be sure to get the files and you might find any problems the drive might have

By: Kristofer Brozio

Kristofer Brozio — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:37:01 +0000

Well.. just an FYI.. the hard drive died for me and I had to RMA it.. I wasn’t using it in the Apollo enclosure though, I was using it with a different enclosure… I had no problem though RMA’ing just the hard drive back to Samsung.. They replaced it with no problems

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:20:45 +0000

found it works when it wants too, is a complete annoyance…. Sometimes it flat out refuses to work for a while…. Expecting it to die anyday now and i dont have the spare storage to back up its contents…. Found a shop stocking 1TB externals (Maxtor or Western digital i forget) for $118 dollars and considering i paid $107 dollars (Australian) or something like that its a bargain… It looks like a nice stable reliable product, never has it bin dropped or even left the house since purchase and still has issues on and off being detected by anything at all… Will not buy imation in future and from reading comments above they clearly arent supporting their products well either… I expect to someday soon be tossing it in the bin but untill then will use it for a doorstop or something as im hoping it can atleast be trusted to do that

By: Khalid

Khalid — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:51:52 +0000

I just bought the Apollo 2.5 500 GB and it is in fat32?!
Is that normal? and will converting it will ruin my phdd?
please help.
y2j_777@yahoo.com

By: Jithesh D

Jithesh D — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:26:49 +0000

my imation apollo 2.5″ 500 GB external hard driv cant be detected on any computer, its not on device manager either… every one i talked to said that my files are gone… its depressing..even the people at the computer store say they cant do anything.. anyhow, i’m still trying to find a way to fix this.. anyone who can help, please e-mail me when i connect it to a pc, the hard drive turns on (whirring sound and blue light is on) and thats it… please help….
pls mail me at jitheshjd@yahoo.co.in
pls somebody help…

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:43:28 +0000

Crap drive, slow and not reliable. plugged it into a mac book pro and repaired it to regain most of the data but still the slowest drive in history. Contacted imation direct and was told they can do anything for the warranty because i am not in the country i bought it in. Overall it SUX