Portable I just purchased The Prestige and was wondering " Am I going to be able to unplug the hard drive and and move my data to another pc/laptop? May someone please answer this?
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Hello, I do not have a prestige, however i believe all USB Hard drives work somewhat the same way - just plug and go! (i could be wrong tho) Hope this helps!
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This isn't exactly "portable"...You can move it around, sure, but it requires another power source (wall outlet) to run. So that's two cords, the USB connected to the computer and the power cable connected to the wall. It's a little inconvenient in my opinion but if you have a stationary computer it isn't a problem. Like Adam said this HDD is plug and go. I didn't have to install anything or even format it. Works like a big flash drive. I'm planning on getting another, bigger one because I filled my 500GB in a few months.
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Agreed. I bought it assuming the advertisement on Amazon was correct... USB power. To confirm I even looked at the list of what comes in the box. No power supply is listed. Irritating to say the least.
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Yes you can. But spend the extra and get SSD drive. It is soooo much faster and does not have a problem with being bounced around.
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Hi Shiki, This is very helpful. Is it easy to partition the drive? I just ordered this so I don't have the drive yet, but when it comes I'd like to back up both my Mac and PC... Do you know where to find information on how to partition? Thank you!
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I don't think it matters as long as you have enough space. I have everything on an external drive because i do interviews off of Skype for my podcast, and store everything off of the laptop itself.
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".......with Windows 8.1?"&gt;&gt;Don't see any reason why not. It's an electro-mechanical switch. It doesn't know what your running nor does it care. "Can same copy of Windows be loaded on each drive?"&gt;&gt;Anytime you install a Windows OS from a disk to a drive as a new install you are risking key number and activation issues. It reads the HDD serial number and MB type etc and thinks it's a new machine. Clone your existing HDD's. You shouldn't have any issues. I cloned my primary HDD to another HDD of the same brand and specs (bought them both at the same time) and I have had zero issues with activation etc when I boot to the clone. I don't like "back-ups". I do a full blown clone at least once a month or even less. So far, so good. The other 4 channels on the Orico are devoted to Linux OS's. Hope this helps.
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I have found that if I unplugged the hard drive from my computer, and then plug it back in, the files appear on the hard drive again. So now I just leave it unpugged all of the time and only hook it up to my computer when I need to copy something over. I also called Western Digital back last year and they were willing to take it back and send me a new one, so if it's still under warranty you may want to try that.
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Sorry, but the one I purchased just want out of its warranty and it died on me 1 week later. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRIVE FOR IMPORTANT DATA.When I now plug it in, all I hear is a click, click, click, so it is dead. I will never purchase another one of these!
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yes you can. Even though your laptop doesn't charge it should still be able to work with the power cord plugged in. If that's no good, then you need to remove the hard drive from the underside of the laptop, then plug the hard drive into a "universal storage adapter" (available on Amazon), then plug the other end to another working computer (USB slot), and pull out the data.
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Though there is no internal drive, I used an external drive to transfer data back and forth with no issue. I made a conscious choose choice for lightweight portability over a drive, since I already had an external drive.
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Be careful. The difficulty in making the most basic configurations on this device (turning it on, turning it off, resetting) could present you with problems in doing anything more complicated. I guess if you have to use this device (which I do not recommend), make sure you do not have sensitive data on it. My device basically decided to reset itself and I lost access to my data. I think Seagate has gone downhill sorry to say.
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Yes. It is an easy process and you can swap and copy files at any point. Keep in mind that the external hard drive is powered by the Verbatim MediaShare so you will definitely not want to be in battery mode, or it will eat the battery up.
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I know you can transfer files such and photos,pdf's, and documents. but not sure if you can back other data such as contacts or games. Mine died before I could do extensive testing with it. It no longer recharges.
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I have purchased several of these devices, but have not opened any. Dont know if its worth the risk. Purchased a Tripe Mate Elite by HooToo, which is a wireless router that lets you connect an external hard drive (>1TB), do pass thrus, etc. Check this device in Amazon and read reviews. Cost was pretty minimal ±$40. Then you can have several HD's and used the one you want. Need to check the movie whether MP4, or what, has some limitations.
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Alex, you asked "Is this drive fully portable, or does it need a power cord?" This external drive is fully portable and needs no external power source. You have one USB to USB connection to your PC or laptop, etcetera, which when connected is assigned a driver by Windows and power is supplied by that one connection in addition to communicating with your PC as an external drive.
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I know you can switch to use an external hard drive but the box only recognizes one hard drive at a time. Meaning if you use an external drive, it won't let you access the internal hard drive until the external is unplugged.
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No, as far as I know you have to use the app to move anything into the drive using it as a stand alone drive. I originally wanted to use it on locations and such but data transfer is slow and the interface is horrendous. I'm sticking to my laptop and cabled drives for the time being.
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I have not done so yet, but see no reason why not. It would have to be in the form of flash drive, download or something like that seeing how it does not have the cd drive...This has just kind of turned into my internet machine due to the long battery life ( 4 hour average). I have just now started connecting to the internet via the ultrabooks built in bluetooth to my cell phone. Not sure yet which way the battery life will go by not using the wifi, but it is really neat to connect this way. Hope this helps...