And finally can I partition this drive so that a chunk of it will be for his TM backup and the rest for misc. storage?
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We bought two of these drives. One we do just that with it. 2 TB for Time Machine & 2 TB for general backup. The other we use with Adobe Lightroom to host our libraries. They are great drives. Very reliable. We had been disappointed with drives from LaCie & MyDisk.
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Yes you can. Just create the partition using the disc utility. (Applications/Utilities/Disc Utility) Hope this helps!
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For it tk recognize the whole drive you'll need to reformat the drive in FAT32.
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I think you mean NTFS, and yes.. Go to computer management - Disk Management - then format the disk to your needs
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Kristin,Carfam is right. Just to add: you can do it manually without the backup tool or even with the included backup tool (using the external for two or more systems).
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Not directly though you can ghost to a larger drive then use windows to move the partition. Slick simple device. I've only had a few drives that were failing have a tough time copying.
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Depends on the operating system. There are linux installs you could back up with 100MB. If you're talking Windows 7, its doubtful you could get 1 copy onto a 16GB flash drive. You might be able to get 1 clean install of windows on that, but it would be tight (remember, the 16gb drive is 16000MB which is actually like 14GB). My OS drive has 35GB, and that's basically Windows only since most of my programs/app data files are all on a different drive. Tl;dr: you can partition it however you want, but you aren't going to be putting any windows backups on a 16GB flash drive.
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I know nothing about partitioning an Xbox 360 hard drive. As far as I know it can't be done. If u are looking to play original Xbox games on ur 360 justpop in the disc and start playing.
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effortlessly is relative...can you transfer the data and O/S? or is this as a secondary drive? Your mileage may vary!
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I believe it was HFS formatted out of the box, but you can always format it any way you want. I have not used it to back up with TM (capacity is pretty small) but I do not know why you could not. It is visible to TM and you can select it as the TM disk. I really like it because it sits almost flush with the side of the MBP and does not get bumped by things or caught on the sleeve when I put it away. So, I basically just leave it in the machine.
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I think you mean "partitioned". The answer is both yes and no. The drive needs to be prepared for use. Most operating systems will recognize a new drive and with a few simple questions will take care of it for you.
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You cant, the drive is a cheap scam. The chip in it tells your computer it has 256gb of storage but in reality it probably has less than 1gb. This scam is successful because most people wont return this and just figure it a loss.
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Yes, I partition it and use about ½ for Macbook Pro back up on time machine and the other ½ for photo backup.
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No, just simply "Select" the WD My Passbook hard drive as your storage device of choice.
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You can format this drive to either FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, or whatever. Will work for system backup or making a recovery disk.
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It is a hardware clone tool, I can't see any way partition until after the clone is made. Then you can go into disk management and make a new partition with the extra space on the drive. I cloned a 500gb hard drive, and there were two partitions that used 120 gb, the resultant min size of these two partitions was 320gb leaving me the remaining space to make other partitions or do whatever I like.
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They provide something called Seagate Dashboard which is like a menu. From there you can have the drive do backups as well as post every picture backed up also posted to Facebook.
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Sure. But if you are backing-up your OS, you should be doing that to a second physical internal hard drive.