I need a hard drive to back up my pictures and documents will this work ?
295861
I purchased this for just that reason. My laptop was slowing down and I found it had 95 gigs of just pics. I moved everything over the drive and the laptop is working much better now
295862
This would work as a external drive, just remember it is a FAT32 hard drive. We used to download information from the PS3 and it had to be FAT32.
1512058
The GB's and windows does not matter. It only allows you to retrieve the data that was on the drive. But to be direct yes It will work. One last thing be sure to check if the drive uses a SATA or IDE connection.
822812
I believe a Western Digital drive would work fine. I bought 2 of them for myself.
2181295
Yes. It works as a typical usb drive. Not to be confused with a hard drive.
654017
Yes to the HP, I have one and it works. I have also used an external hard drive but bear in mind if what you want to do requires local programs to use, it won't. Of course, there are online options for almost anything you might want to do, so if you're willing to learn a few new apps this is not a problem.
2231214
I thnk it will and the setup should be quite easy. But my drive just stopped working after 1 year of flawless working; and hence all my precious data is at stake. so i wont suggest storing any precious data in this drive
2217053
Yes it will, I use 500gig and 1 TB hard drives on my laptops. If your system is already loaded you can image the drive.
2174787
I believe so but as it was always breaking and the Tech Support was so bad I literally threw it away. I would subscribe to Carbonite which is a FAR superior product and they have really good technical support. I believe that Seagate also produce a reasonable back up product but I have never used it. I hope that helps
297637
Yes, You can use this as external hard drive. You would need a USB to SATA adapter cable.
813651
This is not an internal or external hard drive. It is an external casing. So it does not matter what the OS is as long as you have USB support, the enclosure should work.
408663
I don't know that I would trust it for a hard drive either. You could always bet a 2nd, much smaller fire box to put inside if it is that important. Or you could backup your hard drive to a cloud service. Like Carbonite or some other.
47999
I think it will work, I also had an external drive go bad. I took it apart and this worked, like a champ.
2101581
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.
1339936
I am looking for an external hard drive to back up my entire lap top hard drive, in case of failure. Is the Passport Essential the unit I am looking for?
1459396
Definitely! I have the same hard drive and i got it from my old pc too. It'll work.
267955
Any hard drive can be used as a back up. If you are using this for backing up your computer or additional storage, you might want a higher capacity drive.
1006928
I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.