How do I backup my PC to this drive with Win 7 Home Premium? Home Premium doesn't offer network back up.
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I had to buy the retrospect backup software. This works very well. http://www.retrospect.com
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The Western Digital software that you download to help you to access the drive does have a back up protocol in it. This is the best system for a home user or small business user to buy, whether they use a Windows based or Apple based operating system.
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WD comes with Windows backup software. It's somewhat rudimentary but it works.
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Actually, I do not know, I have never been trying that, sorry ask some It guys or search the net. Have a great time!
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You should be able to use the backup already in Windows. Click Start>All Programs>Maintenance>Backup and Restore follow the directions in backup. If the option allows backup to network drive browse to the MyCloudEX4>Public Folder and select that for your destination location. If that option is not available, map a network drive to \\MyCloudEX4\Public Folder and remember the drive letter you assign it and set it as the destination in Backup. If you have a problem seeing the MyCloudEX4ask a friend to look into your networking to make sure it is setup correctly.
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Not sure, I use Backup Exec 2012 and it has drives for it, I don't use the Windows drivers for it.
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I can't either! (make the NTI Back Up Now software work). I'm not very technologically savvy, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Next, I tried backing up files using the Windows (I think) software that's already on my (Toshiba, with Vista) computer, because I was about to ship my computer and didn't want to risk losing files in transit. I thought I had backed up the photographs and documents that I deemed essential, but when I checked the drive to see if my files were on it, it is empty. I can't find any user manual for this on the web. Maybe it's the fault of Vista. Any suggestions? I can't either! (make the NTI Back Up Now software work). I'm not very technologically savvy, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Next, I tried backing up files using the Windows (I think) software that's already on my (Toshiba, with Vista) computer, because I was about to ship my computer and didn't want to risk losing files in transit. I thought I had backed up the photographs and documents that I deemed essential, but when I checked the drive to see if my files were on it, it is empty. I can't find any user manual for this on the web. Maybe it's the fault of Vista. Any suggestions?
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Open up your Windows explorer and find the drive that the Seagate is listed as. Copy and paste the files you want to back up!
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I installed the Seagate Dashboard. I then scheduled it to backup all my stuff every night. You can see what is going on by opening it via "Computer" from your Start Menu on a PC, there it is along with your C drive....good luck. It works like a charm for me...
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I apologize for such delayed reply as I missed to see your email for so long! I have seagate free-agent Dockstar connected to my Seagate 3TB Backup Plus Desktop drive and network adapter. I am able to backup regularly from my desktop and I am able to see my backup drive from Windows explorer.
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It comes with backup utility, but you'll need to supply your own CD\DVD drive. AFAIK it does not include an actual backup partition. Mine is currently unplugged, while I play with an alternative, but I seem to remember this being an issue.Now that I plugged it back in there is a backup partition on the drive. You can access it by hitting <alt> F10 during bootup.
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Network drive has a public folder and two more folders per user (up to 4 users). You can copy directly from the old disk to the new one. Another option is to copy them to the PC and the run the new backup process. Hope this helps.
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Not mandatory. You can use the drive as is. I kept the software on - just in case I changed my mind and/or computer. Be careful what you delete, some of the software is not related to the back up application.
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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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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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I have the Seagate 2tb and I also run Windows 7 and it just asked me to upload an out of date app but it works. That's all I can tell you.
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Depends on the backup software, but generally yes. You connect them not directly, but by attaching the drive to a compatible router on your network. Some routers have USB jacks for hard drives. Do a search on "attach hard drive to router" and you'll get information. This is called "network attached storage" (NAS for short), by the way.
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the drive is not formatted with any version of windows. it is formatted with a run time version of linux.it handles the formatting. the windows 8 machines should see it in the network browser. did you set up user rights?
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Unknown. Two PC's using Win7, including the PC I use to manage the device via browser as backup storage, neither using Seagate software. Another on Win8 using NAS as backup storage but not using the Seagate software to backup data. All PC's using the OS native XCOPY command with /Y /D switches via a batch file. I have firewalled the Seagate device to prevent it accessing or being accessed via internet so that the Remote Access service is not a security vulnerability as Seagate do not provide adequate management of this.
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You can access the drive from any machine on the same network. I have used the NAS with Win 7, Win 8.1, Android, Samsung TV and Ubuntu. If you are asking if the bundled application works with Win 8, sorry mine is installed on a Win 7 machine. Psst, after initial setup you won't need that software at all. Everything can be managed from the Web console.
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I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.