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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Yes. The first bullet point in their description reads: * Support for standard 2.5 "and 3.5" SATA hard drives (SATA-I/II/III); Compatible Operating Systems with Windows 2000/ XP /Vista/ 7/ 8, Mac OS 9.1/10.8.4 or above; Backward compatible with USB 2.0 /1.1 connections
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These drives work fine on Vista. I'm using two on my Vista machine at home. Out of curiosity did the Passport click and turn on and off? I have had that issue with my Passports (80gb and 250gb) on a few computers and it's usually fixed by using a powered hub, a shorter/different USB cable or unplugging all other USB devices connected to the same USB controller. The Passports seem to want the full 5v from the USB port and they will wig out if they don't get it.
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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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I previously answered about the CD. It will work with Vista as plug and play, but only on some versions. If you try cto load the CD, remember that all CD's and zip disks must be removed before you can start Vista or else you will be stuck in start. Let me know if you have any problem. Thanks for your question.
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I don't remember any. It is all on the drive. All I had to do was plug it in and it was recognized. Win7 64. Probably get it off of Seagate's web site too.
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For this technical question I would go to www.seagate.com, and look at the technical specification chart for ST1000DX001 drive.
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.
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Yes, I am successfully using this with all my USB 3.0 External Hard Drives 2 1/2" (Seagate's and Toshiba's) ranging from 500 GB to 1 TB. Works like a champ. I am using this on a Windows 7 Home tower computer I built (Intel platform). This unit provides enough power to run the external hard drives at USB spec 3.0.
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Yes this drive should have no problems with Vista. But You might have a problem getting it to work in your computer. That is because the older computers used an IDE connection and since you are using Vista I am assuming this computer might have only the IDE style of connector. This drive uses the newer connection called SATA. Check that you have this before you purchase.
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I have a 500 gb seagate usb hdd connected to my ezo device and it works great!! However, I found out that it is limited to 1 tara byte usb drives and I haven't even tried any usb dvd or blu-ray burners yet! To see if they will work, but not sure if there is any dvd or blu-ray software for the android os!!
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I am NOT an expert, but it made old drives I took out of my old laptops behave like external drives. Your new computer will probably ignore all your VISTA files on the old drive. It is mainly a way to access data files on your old drive.
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I have used this USB enclosure with a 500gb SATA II drive with Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and with Windows 10 Technical Preview (ver 10041) and it is plug and play on all of those operating systems. I have transferred 500gb on backups from all of those operating systems and it is strictly plug and play. I have also run the disk partitioning and formatting utilities of Windows 10 on this USB hard drive also with no problems.So the latest Windows operating systems are not a problem for this USB enclosure. Maybe you have a bad drive or a problem with your systems USB ports or drivers.
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I have an older Seagate External HD (1.5TB) and a few 3TB Western Digital HD. I have them hooked to my Window 7 desktop through the Anker USB 3.0 hub; so far I have no issues. When not accessing data on my external HD, the disks do spin down gracefully and go to "sleep"...so far I have not had any issues with this device...hope this helps...
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I does come with a 2.5 inch hard drive. I personally backed the hard drive (80 GB) and installed a 500 GB instead. I copied the backup to th new hard drive. It came with Vista, but I installed windows 7 professional.
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Not sure I understand your question. If you mean will it work with the new computer, it should if the computer has a USB port and Windows is installed. Windows will recognize the flash drive so you can either load files onto the Cruzer or download any files saved on it. I had no problem using this flash drive with my computer running Windows Vista.
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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.