On Win7 will drive support Windows System Image function. Have already found several external USB3 drives that will not. System Image is NOT disk image. Looking for external drive for crash recovery without having to re-install and reconfigure...
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I am on Win7 Professional and also ordered a drive to backup onto. It never worked and I sent it right back to Amazon. I then ordered from them a Buffalo DriveStation Axis 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive. Installed it with Acronis True Image 2013 as my software and it has been working great for the past 5-6 months. Not sure why the other drive did not work but I had an older Buffalo drive on my last PC and it worked fine under XP. It was too small for this system. That is the reason I went back to them. Hope this might help.
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I only run windows 7, 64 bit version. How anything, including drives, will run on other operating systems is only confirmed by actual use on that system in my opinion.
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I'm not sure how to answer your question, you can contact Seagate at their toll free number, I have used Seagate external hard drives for years, I am on Windows 7, and it does back up images.
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What did you find-out about 64 bit compatability. So far< I have not found any drive compatable with 64 bit Vista.
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I am running windows 8.1 (64) on a laptop. I probably loaded a driver that came with the drive, but I did not download anything. I have had no problems at all except that I would like to operate throught a usb3 hub and that is not reliable. I use the unit heavily and highly recommend it. good luck!
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Yep. After using it initially, I couldn't get windows to see it any more so took it apart. The drive is a Toshiba, which gets great ratings on drives. The problem with the errors could be a windows USB3 driver. Still not sure. Might re-assemble it to see if anything has changed.
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Yes you can and in reality you will want to use something other than Dashboard, which is a very weak program and will not give you a system image if using win 7 or below. If you have WIN 8 you will be able to use the back up software utility in Win 8 and still get the system image. This is a 4 k sector drive.
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Yes it's justs plug and play and it's recognized by any OS. I use windows backup with no problems.The drive itself is amazingly fast! I'd say it has cut hours a week in productivity.
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It will not work on Win7 if it's been formatted to work Mac. I have a mac that I backed up mp3s and stuff on this drive. Can't get it off using my Win7 machine.
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I'm not sure how to answer your question, you can contact Seagate at their toll free number, I have used Seagate external hard drivesfor years, I am on Windows 7, and it does back up images.
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Recently I added a drive with data to mine. and I was able to restore the data, Back it up and format the drive for a new use. it worked well. I was using windows 7, I am not sure of the format I believe it was NTFS.
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I had a similar problem on Windows 7 after using a USB portable drive on a trip with my XP laptop. I plugged it into my Win7 desktop and the device was recognized, but did not come up with a drive letter. Using the control panel disk manager, I found and error message that it was offline because of some kind of a resource conflict with another drive. I was able to correct the problem by using a right click in the disk manager to put it online. I think this is a Win7 bug, not a problem with the drive.
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I do not have the 3TB version of the drive so I never ran into the problem which only seems to happen with drives over 2TB. The Microsoft Community site has people with problems with Vista and 7 on one of the pages and the answer is to make sure the motherboard drivers are up to date (particularly Nvidia chipset motherboards) and if that does not do it to try downloading and using a program called "Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 6.0.1".I am not sure if it is entirely applicable to your format problem but making sure drivers are up to date wouldn't hurt anything at least. I do not have the 3TB version of the drive so I never ran into the problem which only seems to happen with drives over 2TB. The Microsoft Community site has people with problems with Vista and 7 on one of the pages and the answer is to make sure the motherboard drivers are up to date (particularly Nvidia chipset motherboards) and if that does not do it to try downloading and using a program called "Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 6.0.1".I am not sure if it is entirely applicable to your format problem but making sure drivers are up to date wouldn't hurt anything... » Read More I do not have the 3TB version of the drive so I never ran into the problem which only seems to happen with drives over 2TB. The Microsoft Community site has people with problems with Vista and 7 on one of the pages and the answer is to make sure the motherboard drivers are up to date (particularly Nvidia chipset motherboards) and if that does not do it to try downloading and using a program called "Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 6.0.1".I am not sure if it is entirely applicable to your format problem but making sure drivers are up to date wouldn't hurt anything at least. « Show Less
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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
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when mine got the win 7 partition deleted, i tried to use the f9 partition, but unfortunately, it does not restore the operating system, i don't actually know what it does....
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I'm having the same problem. Windows7 doesn't recognize it. Can't find drivers for the drive or the case ANYWHERE.
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I bought one and I use it. Windows 7 Backup doesn't work with it, so I use a 3rd party backup. It has a USB 3 interface, but I have only USB 2. The disk works fine.