Is this drive password protected and can it be used for making Windows 7 recovery media?
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Will accept a partition but that partition becomes the entire thumbdrive. Windows creates a partition on the thumbdrive that roughly matches the size of the partition on the system hard drive before backing up system restore volumes. My 128 GB thumbdrive is now a permanent 30 GB thumbdrive.
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I'm only using the one drive it came with right now. It might have software raid. You can ask the seller via their support link at deepdiscountservers.com.
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Matt, check this link out and hope it works out for you: http://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/
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Yes Doug..You dont have any problem with that. It is compatible with Windows 7 Backup and Recovery.
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While I no longer have this and cannot test it directly, it is a generic enclosure. Thus, I do not foresee any issues with Windows 7.
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If you mean, "can I use it on Windows 7 without adding other software", then "yes". You can administer the drive characteristics using Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management (or whatever it's called in Windows 7; I'm currently using Windows 8).
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I think so, as you won't be using is as the boot drive. You should.be able to access any good files.
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supposed to be...the laptop I was replacing the hard drive on wouldn't let me past the password point....I bought the laptop brand new and never set a password..so can't really say...sorry
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1. No, this one doesn't use a password to access the drive.2 USB 3 cable is 2 ft long.
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I have never use the "safely remove drive from pc" function. I just unplug it, and no data is lost or corrupt. My previous drives are still working fine. It may not be the right answer but is one that has worked for years without issues
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This depends entirely on your host system (Linux?) or the filesystem on the drive. Any modern Linux kernel will have USB support available. I have used these devices many times with Linux to do data recovery on windows filesystems.
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Yes I think to lock the drive down you need the software but for backing up and using as hard drive you can use whatever. Weather Digital is good for that reason.
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Yes, it is. I used it to access a Windows 7 drive in which the computer tower had burned in a house fire. I plugged the Win 7 drive into a Windows XP tower as a secondary drive. When I turned the Windows XP computer on, it started normally and showed the damaged drive with no problem whatsoever. I retrieved all data on the damaged drive with no loss of files or data at all.
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Yes, see http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tip-create-recovery-media-144098 it also supports the new Windows 8 backup and the legacy windows 7 backup. Google each to find out the benefits of each.
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Depends on what makes the drive not accessible. If the drive is not accessible (not booting up) because of bad Windows files, then perhaps you can access other files that may be alright... If the drive has internal hardware or sector damage then probably not...
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Thanks Terence!This is exactly the info I was looking for! One more question, do you know if the copy of Windows 7 that is factory-installed comes already activated or do you have to activate it on first-boot? If I am to replace the hard drive with a new one (that being the only change) I don't want to face potential activation lock-out because Microsoft thinks I'm trying to install it on an entirely different machine.
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It has password protection for both, wireless and USB connectivity. For WiFi you' dprotect it like any wifi hub. Connecting via cable allows to define a password for the Map Drive functionality. Not sure what happens if somebody would get hold of the drive, remove it and drop it into a drive dock, though...