Seagate Expansion 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905004EXA101-RK: Is this external hard drive compatible with Windows 7, 64 bit?
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Too late to do you any good, but just so you know your post did not go down a bottomless well, I can tell you that it immediately was recognized and processed by my new windows 7, 64 bit, and, at least to date has manifest none of the problems some mention (going to "sleep", needing additional power, etc, ) It has worked as rapidly as I would expect, and is very simple to use, both as a supplemental hard drive and for storage. Whether or not it has only three more minutes to work before breaking down, I cannot tell.
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As far as I know I haven't had any issues with it running on older platforms. Look at the seagate website for requirements.
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It will work just fine. I have Windows 7 pro 64, and it has plenty of storage. After I plug it in and installed the free software for backup, I was ready to go.
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Yes. Any new USB product should work with Windows 7 providing no random errors.
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The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.
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It is backwards compatible. Performs fine - like a USB 2.0 drive when connected to an older port. Performs really well when connected to a 3.0 port.
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All SATA is backward compatible AFAIK. I think that's why Seagate doesn't mention it in their specs. I've never had a problem -- I'm using two of these (3GB each) in a NAS that only supports 3gbs.
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The Drive works well with Windows 8, 8.1 64 bit Providing you up grade software that comes with the unit. I do not have Windows 7 64Bit'
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It is USB 3.0 & 2.0 compatible and since you are supplying and formatting the drives it should work just fine.
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Both NTFS and Fat 32 formatted discs or USB sticks are supported. Cheers! Marty G
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Most likely you will not have a problem with it. External drives from reputable companies pretty much all are compatible. It's a great drive and I'm running it on a mac mini so you should be fine on a windows.
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This will work fine just like any other external USB drive. If you don't want it formatted as NTFS, it can be easily formatted as FAT32 or whatever your need is.
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No problems using with Windows 7. USB plugs in and operates great. This is also far far better than the old bigger version of this drive. There are dozens of fun projects accomplished with this as well. DVD copying etc etc
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I have not tied that specific drive but used Western Digital 500 gb, Acomdata 120 gb and some USB thumb drives. Everything worked fine. I think as long as the hard drive can be connected via USB 2.0 it should work.
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sure be ok. it is ok when i use the 1Tb. but it is better that you check with the Seagate service team
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I believe this drive is backwards compatible with USB 2. I have the same drives and had no trouble with using USB 2.
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You should be able to use it with any version of windows. It should work fine with an external hard drive as a backup.