Does Seagate 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive work with Vista(R) Home Premium SP1 64 bit? Does Seagate 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive work with Vista(R) Home Premium SP1 64 bit?
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Seagate's website claims all the "Go" series products are compatible with 64-bit Vista: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=196031. It specifically lists Vista Home premium there, and you can find a download for the 64-bit software on their website, too. They put in bold print that they "now" support 64-bit, so the earlier reviewer was probably right at the time he/she wrote the review.
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Yes this drive should have no problems with Vista. But You might have a problem getting it to work in your computer. That is because the older computers used an IDE connection and since you are using Vista I am assuming this computer might have only the IDE style of connector. This drive uses the newer connection called SATA. Check that you have this before you purchase.
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The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.
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I got a WD Passport 160 GB USB 2.0 Drive today. - It does not work on my 4-year old Compaq Presario 900 laptop (XP home with SP2). Nothing happens. - So far no trouble running it on my newer HP Pavilion dv4000 (XP home with SP2). With all the comments about working or not working with laptops I keep my fingers crossed! Noticed that reviews earlier this year were far more negative than more recent one's. Did they improve the product??
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I contacted my external hard drive mfg. (Seagate) via web & then called. They researched the item, gave me the model # for the item and recommended Amazon for best price!Received it quickly and am very happy!
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I held off a long time for the same reason. Rest assured, Vista 64 compatibility was added with the the Power Pack 1 (think SP 1) which also corrected the data corruption problem and added other features. Note, it is a pain as you have to first install from a 32-bit operating system before you can install under Vista 64-bit. In other words, I had to connect my girlfriend's laptop with Vista 32 and start the install before I could ultimately connect my Vista 64 desktop to the EX470. It does work though and I love this product. I'm backing-up automatically, set up a photo share for my friends to access, can trade files with friends and serve all my music / video files to my Xbox 360s over powerline ethernet adapters. I recommend upgrading memory from 512mb to 2gb (HP has lifted warranty restriction against this).
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That would depend on the type of USB on the hard drive. Most of my USB 2.0 seagate drives uses mini USB, not mini USB.
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I see no reason for it not to work with xp. Plug into an unused usb port, and use the software that Seagate provides. However, it really is time to ditch xp. It was a fine OS for many years, but without MS support it is pretty much obsolete.
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I have an assortment of sizes and makes of hard drives from 2.0 to 4.0 TB installed on the Mediasonic ProBox as backups on my windows server 2012 R2 essentials (USB 2 only) and they work just fine. Also I let the server clear all partitions during the setup of each drive. I had two 1TB, two 2 TB and as they filled up I replaced them with larger drives and again I let the server clear any partition that had been make while on another computer.
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i am running maverick. my os is 10.9.3. the hard drive works fine. quiet and fast. this is my second my book externalhard drive. th first one i use with a windows 7 computer, it is around 5 years old. i love it. never fails me. thatis all i can tell you.
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No, no instructions. Yes, it is compatible with Windows Vista. It is an internal drive meaning that you install it inside the computer case. Does your case have an empty slot for the drive? It not, you might consider an external USB drive instead. I have one of those as well and it has been just as reliable as the internal unit.
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I believe this drive is backwards compatible with USB 2. I have the same drives and had no trouble with using USB 2.
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I am using this on a Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit system and it has worked without issue.
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I don't remember any. It is all on the drive. All I had to do was plug it in and it was recognized. Win7 64. Probably get it off of Seagate's web site too.
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Yes, but that will void the two year Seagate warranty, which is only on the complete external drive. The warranty is tracked based on the serial number on the enclosure, not the one on the actual hard drive, which is considered OEM and doesn't have a separate Seagate warranty.
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I have Win7 64 bit and it works fine. A scan disc doesn't care what version of windows it is plugged into. The files might not be able to load onto a computer that has outdated programs that cannot read or convert what you have downloaded onto the scan disc. To my knowledge I do not know of any problems whether it is a usb2 or usb3.