Can this be used as a normal hard drive in a windows pc?
1575146
Yes it can. It just has some extra capabilities that you won't be using, which won't impact anything. Wow, I just looked and saw why you're looking to buy this one - it's the cheapest 4TB drive available. Wow. I'd say go ahead and get it.
1575147
I don't see why not... Although there are larger and faster standard hard drives
1575148
Yes, most definitely. NAS drive can be used on a dekstop, but desktop HDD not recommended on NAS. Read this for more info: http://techreport.com/review/25464/seagate-nas-hdd-4tb-reviewed
1102597
You can as long as where your present Hard drive is incaged. Me I found that an enclosed case (Metal box case) you cannot use this item because it sticks out to far. Hope this helps.
577668
Yes, you could format it as a NTFS or FAT32. Mac (as well as Windows obviously) supports both.
2030881
Sure. it just a HDD with some free software from WD. No need to install this software or keep it on a HDD ;)
369742
Most likely you will not have a problem with it. External drives from reputable companies pretty much all are compatible. It's a great drive and I'm running it on a mac mini so you should be fine on a windows.
383385
You can make any hard drive into an external drive with the right equipment. This is of course a 2.5 inch hard drive so you need to make sure the hardware you purchase is compatible. Honestly I would suggest something with much higher capacity for an external drive at least a terabyte. I use these for operating system install and the major programs.
375679
Yes, You absolutely can... I recommend buying a 250 gb hard drive. They cheap and it will help you a lot...
1819009
Yes, if you put it in an enclosure, but that seems a bit silly when it's best used as the main drive for your OS. Data that is not accessed frequently is best put on a larger and less expensive HDD, while frequently accessed OS files and program installations can be put on a drive like this which will have the largest effect on speeding up a PC.
2010150
I can use it as an E: drive, just cant make it work as a C: drive. The problem is with the Partition style, which u can find under Disk Management and by going to the C: drive Disk Device Properties....if it says it is a Partition style: GUID Partition Table (GPT), then this is NOT the drive for you if u want to make it a bootable C: drive. Kingston will just tell you to go pound sand or they will give you a refund if you want to jump thru ALL of their hoops. I spent DAYS with the Kingston Technical Dept just to find out this little bit of trivia...BTW, if you are running Windows 8 then get the 8.1 upgrade...it is free and fixes several problems. I can use it as an E: drive, just cant make it work as a C: drive. The problem is with the Partition style, which u can find under Disk Management and by going to the C: drive Disk Device Properties....if it says it is a Partition style: GUID Partition Table (GPT), then this is NOT the drive for you if u want to make it a bootable C: drive. Kingston will just tell you to go pound sand or they will give you a refund if you want to jump thru ALL of their hoops. I spent DAYS with the Kingston Technical Dept just to find out this little bit of trivia...BTW, if you are running Windows 8 then get... » Read More I can use it as an E: drive, just cant make it work as a C: drive. The problem is with the Partition style, which u can find under Disk Management and by going to the C: drive Disk Device Properties....if it says it is a Partition style: GUID Partition Table (GPT), then this is NOT the drive for you if u want to make it a bootable C: drive. Kingston will just tell you to go pound sand or they will give you a refund if you want to jump thru ALL of their hoops. I spent DAYS with the Kingston Technical Dept just to find out this little bit of trivia...BTW, if you are running Windows 8 then get the 8.1 upgrade...it is free and fixes several problems. « Show Less
690987
I have done this very thing with both of these pieces of software. This is really just a hard drive and will allow normal hard drive work.
364524
If your drive has an mSATA, then it's OK. You can also get a SATA to USB adapter to get the data out.
2277810
I don't know but I don't see why not. It is a standard USB device. Windows sees it as an external drive but I don't know what is under the hood in windows to make that happen. There is no driver disk or application to load, you just plug it in and Windows knows what to do. Like everything Linux... If you have, or can get, or can write the driver, it will work.
183922
Yes you can. To properly use it in this manner, you need to create re-partition the drive into two partitions in a GUID partition table (GPT). It cannot be a basic master boot record (MBR) partition found on many Microsoft machines. Then format one as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and one as NTFS or if you're on an antiquated windows machine FAT 32 or FAT 16(which will not recognize drives larger than 2gb, but will work fine if you are partitioning one of the drives as less than 2gb). Once this is complete, you are done and ready to use on both Mac & Windows full time and simultaneously.
1358806
Yes. It is an external hard drive. It will behave as another drive on your computer.
232631
If you have this drive installed in your pc with the drive utility software there should not be a problem. What type of motherboard and CPU are you using?
2010149
I can use it as an E: drive, just cant make it work as a C: drive. The problem is with the Partition style, which u can find under Disk Management and by going to the C: drive Disk Device Properties....if it says it is a Partition style: GUID Partition Table (GPT), then this is NOT the drive for you if u want to make it a bootable C: drive. Kingston will just tell you to go pound sand or they will give you a refund if you want to jump thru ALL of their hoops. I spent DAYS with the Kingston Technical Dept just to find out this little bit of trivia...BTW, if you are running Windows 8 then get the 8.1 upgrade...it is free and fixes several problems.
1094985
Yes. I purchased this hard drive as replacement for a computer that already had Windows 7 (the hard drive died). Installed the operating system, drivers, etc. on the new hard drive and the computer is running fine.