Free Trial?? Seagate Expansion Portable Drive My daughter is transferring her files on her laptop to this Seagate Expansion Drive -= but - it says this is a free trial or you cn buy now. What is there to buy and why?? I thought buying the portable drive was all she had to pay for?? thank you anyone! Free Trial?? Seagate Expansion Portable Drive My daughter is transferring her files on her laptop to this Seagate Expansion Drive -= but - it says this is a free trial or you cn buy now. What is... » Read More Free Trial?? Seagate Expansion Portable Drive My daughter is transferring her files on her laptop to this Seagate Expansion Drive -= but - it says this is a free trial or you cn buy now. What is there to buy and why?? I thought buying the portable drive was all she had to pay for?? thank you anyone! « Show Less
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It is probably a software pre-installed on the drive that is telling you to do that. If you don't want to use it, format the drive before you start using.
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Actually, a few days ago I called 1-800-SEA-GATE (ONE, EIGHT HUNDRED SEA GATE) and told them my problem and the lady e-mailed me a download link for an actual SeaGate brand of software program called SeaGate Manager. So, now I'm able to use the drive again.
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I have the same problem with Memeo.. After the free trial I paid for the subscription at 49.95. I won't let me do anything. How can I format it to work?
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Really, any of the current internal offerings by Seagate that are heavily discounted both on here and new egg would be more than suitable. I would suggest a model with at least 7,200 rpm disc speed for a smoother transfer experience. This docking station is amazing for the record. It's been my fave gadget buy of the year so far. Hope this helps, Robert
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I bought a chinese Superdrive knockoff, and it didnt work, so I spent the extra $$ and bought the Apple USB Superdrive here on Amazon (I had to install the NI bundle this way...sucks..) It works just fine.My advice is "what is another 30 or 40 bucks after spending a small fortune on this machine??" lol
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You did not say what operating system you have so I do not know how old, also if you replacing or adding this drive to your system, so I have to guess on these points. If it is a newer system from dell you have anywhere from a 500gb to a 1 tb drive installed from Dell, Most dell computer do have al least 1 extra dive location so you can add a drive. As for the Seagate brand it makes no difference what brand drive you install in your computer only that it be formatted for the OS you are going to use so it can be seen and read and write to. I hope this answers your question.
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Good question. The drive arrived with zero printed materials so I have no idea. Thanks for raising the question -- maybe someone from Amazon can answer! When you buy bare drives from Amazon, you get good packing material and a good box. Nothing else. There might be info on the Seagate site...
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I opened mine up after both of them died. They had old used drives from 2007 in them. So it's potluck if you get one you can depend on. I bought these thinking I was getting new stuff. They don't make it easy to crack open to find out the truth. They were Seagate & WD drives from 2007 so are good brands. But being used they could have been abused, or well used. I could have got 2007 drives for almost nothing if that's what I wanted.
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Awww, this is disappointing. This is the exact question I needed answered. I can't believe in two years, no one has answered it. I'm hoping someone might answer it soon. There's a 1 TB Iomega drive for $97 and a 1 TB LaCie drive for $150. I just want to know if the extra $53 for the LaCie drive is worth it.
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Bonnie,It sounded too good to be true. But i just went to zipzoomfly. you are so right. the computer by itself is 377 and the drive alone is 65. both cheaper than amazon. combined them and it goes to 359 for 1005HA-P and 40 for the drive. basically a drive for 10 dollars over amazon. then if the rebate is mail in and you get back 30, then you get paid 20 dollars to get a free drive. wish I had waited another day to buy mine. I am waiting to see how amazon deals with this. at the very least they should sell the drive for 35-40 dollars to those who already bought a machine in July. Amazon is not going to be pleased about your post. Bonnie,It sounded too good to be true. But i just went to zipzoomfly. you are so right. the computer by itself is 377 and the drive alone is 65. both cheaper than amazon. combined them and it goes to 359 for 1005HA-P and 40 for the drive. basically a drive for 10 dollars over amazon. then if the rebate is mail in and you get back 30, then you get paid 20 dollars to get a free drive. wish I had waited another day to buy mine. I am waiting to see how amazon deals with this. at the very least they should sell the drive for 35-40 dollars to those who already bought a machine in... » Read More Bonnie,It sounded too good to be true. But i just went to zipzoomfly. you are so right. the computer by itself is 377 and the drive alone is 65. both cheaper than amazon. combined them and it goes to 359 for 1005HA-P and 40 for the drive. basically a drive for 10 dollars over amazon. then if the rebate is mail in and you get back 30, then you get paid 20 dollars to get a free drive. wish I had waited another day to buy mine. I am waiting to see how amazon deals with this. at the very least they should sell the drive for 35-40 dollars to those who already bought a machine in July. Amazon is not going to be pleased about your post. « Show Less
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you should be able to use it on another computer. especially if you have used it as a backup drive or just downloaded random files you should always be able to load it onto a different computer.
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No, there's no drive on this laptop! To Be honest, I don't recommend you to buy it!
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Given that there are conflicting answers to this question on Amazon, and I really wanted to know before purchasing a drive, I contacted Seagate. Here's their response: " Unfortunately, part of the information is not provided at all. The RPM of our Expansion drives are not a provided specification, meaning the unit can run from 5400 RPMs to 7200 RPMs. We have no way to know which is it. It is not a guaranteed specification." So, it's a crap shoot. And it matters.
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I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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I don't know of any additional charges so I would say no. It's a hardware purchase not a service plan and I do not recommend the product. Toshiba has other external hard drives that have worked well for me but not this one.
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Thanks, I got this hard drive about a month ago and it has been working perfectly. I used the free trial of Acronis True Image 2010 to clone the drive. Now I have this drive and my old 320GB 54K for a backup drive!
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Thanks for the reply. I have already purchased and am using the drive with no problem. I purchased after reading on Newegg that someone had been using it with an Acer Aspire One with no problems. Tahnks again for taking the time to reply.
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Frankly I have found NO external drive either desktop or portable that have been particularly easy to work with and customer service of all (WD, Seagate, or Toshiba) either don't reply period or if they do it's gooble-de-gook. Seems as though that the hardware is perfectly capable of storing data but retrieving it is another question. The software is totally, absurdly complex. (Ditto thumb drives with password protected sectors. Impossible!) IT folks decry the fact that no one bothers to back up anything. Guess why?
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I apologize for such delayed reply as I missed to see your email for so long! I have seagate free-agent Dockstar connected to my Seagate 3TB Backup Plus Desktop drive and network adapter. I am able to backup regularly from my desktop and I am able to see my backup drive from Windows explorer.