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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I have not tied that specific drive but used Western Digital 500 gb, Acomdata 120 gb and some USB thumb drives. Everything worked fine. I think as long as the hard drive can be connected via USB 2.0 it should work.
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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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will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
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It depends on what you mean by compatible with Vista. Any flash drive you can find on the market today will let you plug it into your usb port and copy files to and from it in Vista. From what I've been able to find in my research the U3 software doesn't work under Vista at this point no matter what model of this drive you get - that will change when a new version of U3 is released. Finally there's Ready Boost - the feature of Vista that lets you plug in a flash drive to speed up your computer in lieu of adding more memory. As far as I can tell there are 2 different versions of the titanium out right now - one that is compatible with ready boost (look for a "RB" at the end of the product number - eg. SDCZ7-4096-A10RB) and one that isn't (SDCZ7-4096-A10 in this case). Right now you can expect to pay about $15-$20 more for the Ready Boost capable drives. How's that for confusing? :-)
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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 checked other responses to this question. This is what I found: " Works with XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8. All of them!Bobby Mac answered on August 23, 2014 " I have windows 7 and mine is a 64GB flash drive and works good for me. It should tell you on the package what systems it will work.
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There is no reason it shouldn't work with Vista - Samsung installs all the drivers and BlueRay movie software. Works great for making backing up your home movies. I have it working on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
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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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Apparently it depend upon the HD. External drives may properly respond to "plug and play". With internal drives, I must go to the Device Driver (Control Panel -> Device Manager -> right click on "Disk drives" -> select "Scan for hardware changes". The HD starts every time for me. Note: I returned to MS Vista (from Windows 8). If you are using a different operating system there may be a different series of commands.
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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 Vista Home Premium and it works fine. Was recognized as soon as I plugged it in.
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I have no idea. I would call Seagate. They were great when I called with questions.
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Generally, YUP.Specifically, If your external drive works plugged into the laptop usb 3 port, It will work plugged into the hub which is then plugged into your usb 3 port on your laptop. I have 7 - 3tb seagate externals plugged in via a plugable hub into a pci-usb3 2-port extension on an old dell laptop running win 7 home premium. The second slot on the pci has a Seagate 3 TB plugged in directly. I get no vairance in speeds or performance from either slot/device. The 4TB should work as well.
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My Western Digital and Seagate 2TB portable USB3.0 drives work fine with it.
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This should work with vista as long as yo have an open USB port and the appropriate caddy for the drive.
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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.