jpeg storage from mac and windows xp: will this thing work for someone who is completely a plug-and-play gal?
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This particular drive is an EARS drive meaning that it is an advanced format drive which won't run by default in XP. Western Digital has set up a page to help users get it working in XP however I'm not an XP user so I'm not sure how straight-forward the steps are. You might be more interested in a EADS drive which should work fine out of the box for you. Unfortunately the 1.5 TB EADS drive costs 99 while this 2.0 TB EARS drive costs 89.
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Yes. Worked fine fie me. Was able to read and copy JPEG files from my SD card.
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Thanks SO much, Liberty! I've been trying to find a scanner to preserve old photos digitally, but several are larger than 8.5x11", i.e. 11x14", so I need a bit larger glass to fit them. I expected this to be easy...not so! My old scanner is that big, but it only plugs into an old-style desktop computer, not USB2 laptop, and now I am wondering if I can find a plug adapter so I can use the old scanner for the big photos. Likely the scanner software won't recognize XP!
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I think yes if you format it in the most basic/old formats still recognized by both Mac and Windows OS you are using. FAT-32 should work. However there should be a downside in performance because the latest formats used by both operating systems are much better and advanced than the old formats. These newer/latest formats can't be used simultaneously on both Mac and PC. So my answer is yes but with significant drawbacks. I recommend you do more research on the net
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I don't know because I use a later version of OS X. It worked fine with that. Maybe check the WD site? They most likely have full specs on their site.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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Yes. It's easy to setup since the drive operates independently from either Windows or Mac.
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I, too, have a Mac and a Windows. I've ended up having separate hard drives for each. Most of my data--years and years of documents and images--are on my Windows computer. I got the Mac because I needed a laptop and didn't want to get Vista. My experience is that I can plug the Windows hard drive to the Mac and it will recognize and read just about everything. The PC, on the other hand, will not recognize the drive from the Mac (at best) or will have a blue-screen tantrum (at worst--so far).
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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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If it worked and I don't think it would, you would be waisting about $200 dollars on functionality you don't need. Buy an Mac compatible external hard drive instead and use Time Machine to back up with it.
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I think the "Dual Install" ability on Windows and Mac is a great feature. My first purch was the Photoshop Elements 2006, I have an HP Laptop and a MacBook Pro so I had to buy them separate and it gets costly to do this. So buying one with the installation available for both my machines is great. I never buy software from a "download" I buy actual hardware, I want physical material in hand to find if needed to reinstall or look up info.
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I HAVE NO MAC FILES (it stores ipad videos)- I THINK IT WILL STORE ANYTHING. The plug in has a fan in side that makes failure less likely.ps -its bottomless
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I have not used this drive personally. But, there is a program called Paragon Software, which has written drivers for OSX to mount NTFS drives, and also drivers for Windows to mount HSF+ drives, so for $19 you'd be golden! They even have a free version for personal use on Windows 8 (and I'm using it on W10 with no problems)
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No. You can use the default windows/mac software to download pics and videos.
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Yes, You may have to format to work. The one I bought was exFAT. exFAT is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.5 or newer, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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This unit scans to your own USB/storage device that you can put into your Apple or your PC. The files appear as jpgs. I use it on both Apple and PC.
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It would be pretty slow compared to an internal hard drive. You could probably make it work alright if you keep the Lightroom catalog on a faster internal drive, and only used the USB drive to store image files.