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?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FWGJIY/ref=ox_ya_oh_productThanks,Smitha 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? » Read More 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?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FWGJIY/ref=ox_ya_oh_productThanks,Smitha « Show Less
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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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When I installed this drive, I had updated my whole system, so I changed to windows 7. I did that because, I had heard that it will work with Vista, but there would be trouble if you used an IDE connector.
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Based on Amazon reviews of external floppies, this one seemed best choice of several. I got lucky - quick plug n play with WIN7, and can't speak for a Vista system. Hopefully, your replacement will work.
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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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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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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 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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Hi, I asked Amazon customer service and this is the reply I got. Hello from Amazon.com. As informed by an appropriate department, this item "Seagate FreeAgent Go USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive" is compatible with Windows 7. I hope this information is helpful and thanks for shopping at Amazon.com. UPDATE: I purchased it and yes, it does support Win 7.
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My Western Digital and Seagate 2TB portable USB3.0 drives work fine with it.
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I am not sure, but here is where you should be able to find out: http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/
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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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Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..
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I'm using it on vista home premium 32 bit right now. It will work with vista. Not sure about your specific computer.
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I never used it with Vista Home Premium, but Epson's website says it is compatible with Vista. But read this from the Epson web site about installing drivers:http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supAdvice.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&type;=highlights&noteoid;=86150. Says not to insert the install disk that comes with the printer. I would give it a try, as Amazon would let you return it if it does not work.
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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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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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Yes, the Seagate hard drive works with either 2.0 or 3.0 . . . the transfer rate is faster with 3.0