If I enclose my old hard drive, can I just open those items I need? I am looking to use it as extra storage so I can delete items on my internal HD
919956
The enclosed drive should appear as a usual storage device, allowing access to any or all of its contents.
944423
It is closed and sealed, ready to put into your laptop. The hard drives are often shown (senselessly) as if you could see their internal parts, you will not.
677870
Yea just copy them onto the drive and plug it in, you'll have to leave the drive in since it has no internal storage.
736032
I think the easiest thing to do would be to install one of the 750gb drives and let WHS incorporate it into your array. Then tell WHS that you want to remove the original 500gb drive. It *should* transfer all of your data from that drive to your new one, allowing you to remove it and then install the remaining new drives.
226179
Yes. I have done this several times. The hdd fits snugly though, and it is quite difficult to get in and out. I used a screwdriver, but a flatbladed scaper of some sort might be better.
2049255
well you need to unscrew the case to get to the drive so no way i can think of. you could eject it, unplug it, open it up, and put in a new one. would take you a few minuets to do but its possible.
1463808
1. Yes, the Hard drives appear to be replaceable--there are doors for them on the back of the drive.2. I do not know--I have not tried this, and the manual does not address this issue.
1080762
I don't know if you can. If you've had it for some time and it died then it may not be worth trying. Mine died at about the 1 1/2 year point I think it was. I went out and bought another one. My only though is perhaps to hook it up to a regular computer, see if it recognizes the drive and play around from there. I would be hesitant to use it for too long if you can manage to reform it. When it does you get little warning and you lose all the recordings on it.
1287707
Hi, The hard disk drive is independent with the OS. It depends on the connection port and the standard of hardware of the computer. The best way for you is to check the old hard disk drive on your computer and buy a new one with the same specifications.
936062
read outside of the enclosure? I am not entirely sure I understand you question, but they are standard 3.5" hard drives, so they can be removed and used elsewhere (installed into a computer for example) or they can be replaced with newer or larger drives.
958422
Any external USB hard drive can be used via the USB ports, the seagate HD is necessary to for the "convenient" slide in interface (it still leaves both USB ports open)
62529
No, this unit is brand new so they don't have any file system on them. If your putting this in a Windows computer it will prompt you to format the drive to be able to use it. Thanks!
680873
The unit is sealed, so cracking it open isn't a good idea overall. It's a normal laptop sized HD, so it is technically possible though.
997465
I would make sure to save the old drive just on case removing it causes more peoblems
1386248
I have never use the "safely remove drive from pc" function. I just unplug it, and no data is lost or corrupt. My previous drives are still working fine. It may not be the right answer but is one that has worked for years without issues
350199
You should have no issue, as long as you can open up the laptop and remove the old drive.
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You are supposed to be able to do that, but I have had many problems with this unit. Even just one hard drive plugged into this didn't work properly. It would eject the external hard drive all the time. It work fine in the beginning, then suddenly stopped working.