I"m going to buy this drive to replace my bad HD. Is it basically plug n play? Once I put it in, will it start working?
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you need to open your laptop and replace the broken HDD, after that you need to install new windows on your computer.
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Yes - we used the rescue disk and our backup that was about a week old and restored everything.
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Hmm.. not sure.. theoretically it should work but I didn't want to chance it. So I took my separate external 2TB drive and connected it and it works perfectly
860461
If the old drive worked I can see no reason why the new one wouldn't do the same. Make sure all your drivers are up to date. GK
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Don't worry, it works... Back then all the hard drives had the EIDE configuration, it will work... For then, the industry switched to SATA...buy it, it will work as long as your laptop has the same EIDE connection...
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Sorry to tell you, yeah it's a bad drive. These aren't official Microsoft hard drives, so sometimes they won't work. Try returning it. Mine works pretty nice, but had I known that it wasn't actually produced by Microsoft, I wouldn't have bought it.
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Yes it's justs plug and play and it's recognized by any OS. I use windows backup with no problems.The drive itself is amazingly fast! I'd say it has cut hours a week in productivity.
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Paul, I am not a computer geek but would think that it will work. HOWEVER, I would strongly suggest you contacting "BrainyDeal" and asking them before you order it. They have exceptional Customer Service. When I decided to send it back, they actually gave me step by step instructions to get the drive working. Although the suggestions did not work on my laptop, I did find the "Microsoft Fix It" site and got it to work properly. Either way, good luck.
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You shouldn't have to. Try a different port. And also wait up to 60 seconds for the drive to be recognized.
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Thanks, I got this hard drive about a month ago and it has been working perfectly. I used the free trial of Acronis True Image 2010 to clone the drive. Now I have this drive and my old 320GB 54K for a backup drive!
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I can only tell you about my experience - I was in the process of transferring files to the drive. The transfer stopped about an hour in, and my system no longer recognized the drive's existence. Rebooting did not help. I also tried the drive on other computers, and they failed to recognize the drive also. The return process was fairly painless and my refund was processed very quickly.
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probably if you can get it work at all! Every restart I did resulted in it loosing the date and needing reformat (that was two new drives! both same problem).
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Once you plug it in it is self explanatory on what you need to do. Download the Seagate dashboard and it will help you.
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Mine failed to operate the HD from a 2007 Dell desktop. My laptop recognized the interface as a device, but never saw the drive. My adapter/converter arrived with a faulty plug also. I knew most people have received defective units. For $8 or whatever it is now, I took the chance. I tried a different adapter a week later that worked for me.
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I just got the drive. It is the same model as before. But simply replacing the pcb board does not work. The original pcb board is working fine as tested by mounting it to the new drive. There is some serious problem inside the sealed chamber like reading arms or some mechanical failure. I don't want to mess it up now. I have to eat the pain of losing my data. I used to always trust WD but now I changed my mind. Maybe looking for a seagate one for replacement. Next time I will build a Raid.
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It work with my external HDs, and should be model independent (especially the one that run under its own power (not through USB alone). It also work with the HD that use USB power, but I personally feel that I cannot have a lot of that kind of HDs.
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Hi, this USB cable works but you need to know if your HD needs electricity to start working. If it does, you will need a software help you doing it. It's just up to your HD.
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Hey Mark, well the funny thing is that I sent this thing back. It just wouldn't format. No matter what I did, or cable I used it didn't work. It also had problems with using the firewire cable. I think I got it to recognize the HD ONCE, and then it said it would take almost 17 hours to format it. I honestly think something was wrong with the drive itself, but I didn't want another one to try. I figured I'd wait.