How can I make this sexy ruby red iomega ext hard drive compatible to my desktop?
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I suggest you return it immediately, or just back it up and throw it away. Mine crashed without warning a few years ago and I lost thousands of dollars worth of information.
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when i purchased mine it was formatted for mac. In windows i had to format it in disk management to fat32 to work for both mac and windows.
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As commenter Super Geek suggests, if you're using a PC, then you will need to reformat it as Fat32. If you have any data on it, you will need to back it up elsewhere in order to reformat the drive for PC.
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You need to reformat the drive to match your operating system.....directions are on the Iomega web site.
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Yes, I have one built with 4x6TB WD RED drives in an 18TB RAID-5 volume. I was able to format it with GPT, NTFS. I tested copying files, and I ran a chkdsk /r to test the free space. Everything looks good so far. I am going to be using it soon to fill with data.
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Only if you have SATA connections available to work with...otherwise find an IDE drive.
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So easy. Just remember buy a 3.5 sata hdd, because the 2.5 is not compatible
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I have this exact hard drive - purchased it this weekend. It needs to be formatted FAT 32. It works perfectly with my Mac and PC.
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Google it...it's just a slow 1 terabyte hard drive produced by Western Digital...you can buy from Amazon or Newegg
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Hi, I have the iomega 100M with usb on Windows xp (home edition) and it works just fine. If that helps? Hiram Connell
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Hi,I have the iomega 100M with usb on Windows xp (home edition) and it works just fine.If that helps?Hiram Connell
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It must be a laptop drive. My Western Digital Blue was just a couple millimeters too thick to fit properly but I can live with it.
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For me it just worked as is - plug it in using the provided USB cable, and the drive icon will show up on your desktop after several seconds. You can re-format it with Apple's file system (HFS+) if you only intend to use it with Apple computers, but the default should work fine too.
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The drive would be compatible, but I am not seeing a dramatic increase in performance.
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Not unless you have IOMEGA zip disks you need to access. As others have said, it's old technology. You probably want a flash drive that is compatible with current computers.
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It's been a long, long time since I've bought an Iomega diskette type drive. Compared to a USB Hard Drive (like Seagate Backup Plus) the older Iomega is much slower and less reliable. In my opinion it's way past its prime. I would take your friend's advice and get a USB hard drive. If your Win7 computer supports USB 3.0 I would definitely get a 3.0 USB Hard Drive. 3.0 is 10 times as fast as 2.0 and really flies. That's my opinion. Good luck with your decision. --- Sam
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I would not recommend doing that. Having owned two of these I can say that these "wanky" units do not respond well to any modifications. All the software is embedded in the unit/on a chip. Stick with Lenovo/Iomega's specs for the hard drives with regards to disk size and rpm. That is what I would do based on my experience.
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I run a 32-bit Vista system. Formatted a 4tb drive GTP/NTFS, connected via eSata and it is both fast and reliable. USB does not work.
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I use it for iomega slim drive. But technically should work with any portable hard drive, as long as pin fits.
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This device uses Linux as SO. There is an option to allow you to do it. But, you'll need to get the root privilege on the device. And, if you are absolutely comfortable with Linux, my guess is read a lot before, do a back up first and don't count on the EMC/Iomega after a failure they will do nothing to help you. Take look at: http://iomega.nas-central.org/wiki/Main_Page - a lot of good information tehre !