Has anyone tried Windows Backup/Restore using this drive? Or any other hd backups?
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There is plenty of room for normal Backups using Blue rays. Also the restore from Blue ray is also dependable. Normally I use a large removable Hard drive for this process because I can Back up and restore whole drives or clone them. I hope this helps.
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I've chosen Western Digital because of reliability. I've owned 4 WD drives: An 80GB, a 160GB, a 500GB, and this 1TB, and haven't had one of them fail on me. But as another user stated, WD sends just the drive itself. You'll have to download software, find screws, etc
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It was but since then I've lost all my pictures that I took for over two years. I would highly recommend the western digital external hard drive. I've used them for over ten years and no problems at all. I just bought another one two days ago "the WD passport w. Auto cloud backup. It's about the same price plus they give you cloud back up. Can't. Beat this company that been around for 30 years.
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Yes. I own this device and cloned a 1TB HD to a 2TB HD for my home PC running Windows 7. No issues whatsoever. Worked great.
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I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.
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I've been using this drive for months and have had no issues with corrupt data. How can you know the data is corrupt?
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I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with Windows 7 System Image Backup Utility. I do use the Buffalo DriveStation 2 TB drive with my Windows 7 Home Premium operating system and like it very much.
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Did you replace your hard drive. I am interested in doing the same thing. Thanks!!
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No the hard drive doesn't work anymore and it's less than a years time. Also wd would not rma the product for me.
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Currently running four 4T WD drives , Win 7, 64 bit machinr. No idea if they support boot, using all for storage with four other 2T and 4 other 1T drives. Most are Seagate.
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Just as KrellSteel said, works fine once you use Disk Manager on it. I have a 4TB drive, a WD40EURX, and gave it a GUID partition with NTFS, and drive letter for convenience, and it's copying files like a champ as I type. Copying 200GB of data (5% of it's capacity) takes about 40 minutes.
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I have successfully backed up an HP desktop PC running Win7 (64-bit) to 2 independent Seagate external HDDs (128GB USB 2.0 and 1TB USB 3.0) connected via this Plugable USB hub without any errors or failures. Each backup job handles more than 75GB of data. I would expect you to see similar performance with your Win7 Dell laptop.
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effortlessly is relative...can you transfer the data and O/S? or is this as a secondary drive? Your mileage may vary!
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interesting comment...but no have not tried that so far...but then I again I purchased the drive to save/transfer files
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Use the USB and a USB external hard drive. WD has one with 2TB I picked up during Black Friday sales.
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I put in a drive with data on it and windows wouldn't recognize it unless I formatted it first. Works fine after formatting, but I had to backup all of my data before using the drive.
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Hi, I'm so sorry, I can't help you: I never, ever use the back up software in these drives, my laptop is already slow and I find it makes it worst, so I copy/updates my files manually. Good luck with yours!