On Win7 will drive support Windows System Image function. Have already found several external USB3 drives that will not. System Image is NOT disk image. Looking for external drive for crash recovery without having to re-install and reconfigure applications. Standard backup software supplied with external drives is for user file backups only. On Win7 will drive support Windows System Image function. Have already found several external USB3 drives that will not. System Image is NOT disk image. Looking for external drive for crash... » Read More On Win7 will drive support Windows System Image function. Have already found several external USB3 drives that will not. System Image is NOT disk image. Looking for external drive for crash recovery without having to re-install and reconfigure applications. Standard backup software supplied with external drives is for user file backups only. « Show Less
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Sorry, haven't a clue. I sent mine back as I couldn't use it with my home network router. I too, am still looking . . .
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I am on Win7 Professional and also ordered a drive to backup onto. It never worked and I sent it right back to Amazon. I then ordered from them a Buffalo DriveStation Axis 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive. Installed it with Acronis True Image 2013 as my software and it has been working great for the past 5-6 months. Not sure why the other drive did not work but I had an older Buffalo drive on my last PC and it worked fine under XP. It was too small for this system. That is the reason I went back to them. Hope this might help.
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I used a 2TB Seagate drive, and had no trouble recognizing it in Win 7. Both USB and E-SATA worked ok for me. Have you tried both interfaces? Might want to try connecting it to another system as well.
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I use a 4TB drive in mine with Windows 7. It works great. Solid case. I love it.
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Yes... I am on 7. I just use it to save critical files on. Don't fully understand the "back-up" software that is supplied with it.
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Hi,I asked Amazon customer service and this is the reply I got.Hello from Amazon.com.As informed by an appropriate department, this item "Seagate FreeAgent Go USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive" is compatible with Windows 7.I hope this information is helpful and thanks for shopping at Amazon.com.UPDATE: I purchased it and yes, it does support Win 7.
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worked fine on mine. I have backed up a win8 laptop & win7 laptop on one c6 clickfree. I then checked randomly for specific files and found them without issue. I have not tried a restore at this time. So far I like it.
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Yes, I am using W7 and have no problems. It will take a bit more of available disc space for the extra stuff included that I will not use myself. Seems like a good external HD. (I have the 500 GB model)
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Works fine. That is what I too have. I use the Windows 7 Back up program for backing up my computer to the Toshiba Canvio.
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It worked 3TB drive only after firmware update [ didn't even work with usb 3.0 without update] and following instruction from this link. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5. hope it helps.
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Yes, I have Windows 7 and the drive is readable. However, you will need to reformat this drive (recommended anyway if only to remove the encryption software that builds in a potential way to lose all your data). If you don't, Windows Backup & Restore won't run. I also had issues using the included software to perform backups.After the reformat, everything's backing up fine. So with a bit of finagling, you should be able to use this with Windows 7.
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This is a bare drive only. It does not come with cables, mounting hardware, or drivers. Windows supplies all necessary drivers.it is intended be mounted in a laptop. This mounting requires no cables.
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Hi, I asked Amazon customer service and this is the reply I got. Hello from Amazon.com. As informed by an appropriate department, this item "Seagate FreeAgent Go USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive" is compatible with Windows 7. I hope this information is helpful and thanks for shopping at Amazon.com. UPDATE: I purchased it and yes, it does support Win 7.
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look here, windows 7 supports software raid http://www.buildegg.com/bewp/?p=44
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I have used this "A" disk drive on my Windows 7 OS. In fact it helped me find old photos on my floppy drives which I had forgotten about. No problem with it and the drive is recognized as soon as I attached it to the computer.
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From my expreience with the hard drive, it does not back up operating systems. I have just backed up my computer this morning in response to this question and could not find the option (granted, i have a 350gb drive--not the 500--being that the two might have different abilities (I highly doubt it)).
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I used it on my Windows 7 Operating System and it doesn't require driver. It works like a regular USB drive.
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I have had the same problem using other devices with Windows 7 (which as a "disk operating system" is a total bust!) Sometimes it helps to plug in a different memory card or USB device before reinserting the first card or device- give that a shot. Windows 7 allows me to eject the drive from Windows Explorer which works better than using the icon in the notification area of the taskbar.