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Need Advice On Buying A Good External Hardrive

#16 chugg

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 05:37 PM

Here is the link to the drive I bought.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...E=WEBLET03ORDER

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 05:45 PM

raw, on Jul 12 2008, 06:28 PM, said:

chugg posted it is a Western Digital Passport. Unfortunately that drive only comes
with WD Sync, and from the posts I've read it's not very good as it only allows
you to "sync" your data between for example your home and work computer.

I could be wrong but if I understand it correctly, only one of the drives has to be a Seagate for the App. to work. Not sure if it has to be the external one

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#18 chugg

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 05:56 PM

I dont have my disc so none of these options will work for me.

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 06:35 PM

It stated that WD Sync comes installed on the new drive.
Looking over the DiskWizard manual it looks like it "might" work
even if you are not using a Seagate drive.
Chapter 5 (page 16 of the pdf) explains backups. Here is a link to the manual:
http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/dw_ug.en.pdf
DiskWizard page at Seagate:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/d...oads/discwizard

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#20 chugg

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Posted 06 August 2008 - 07:48 PM

Guys I bought this drive some time ago and its sitting here doing nothing because I cant figure out how to use it and my exausted searches have come up with nothing. Can anyone please help with this? Thanks in advance for your help.

#21 garmanma

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Posted 07 August 2008 - 10:29 AM

WD Sync instructions:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/

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Posted 07 August 2008 - 06:16 PM

raw, on Jul 11 2008, 10:46 PM, said:

Windows Backup is free.Here's the how-to:
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/xpbackup.htm

Hi All

I hope Iam not interupting but I live in Australia and I have been unable to find any of the Sites listed above Sell or Ship to Australia is this correct? :thumbsup:

Thanks Dasha

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Posted 07 August 2008 - 07:34 PM

If you can locate platypus in the member directories, He's from Australia. I'm sure he can help you
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Posted 15 August 2008 - 05:00 AM

garmanma, on Jul 12 2008, 09:26 AM, said:

chugg, on Jul 11 2008, 10:05 PM, said:

There is no free way to backup my whole computer on my new removable hard drive?

If one of the hard drives is a Seagate they have a free tool in the download section of their support site. I think it's called Disk Wizard

Hey Mark: I do have a Seagate internal 320 GIG, thanks for the info, I will try the support site, audioAl over an out

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Posted 20 August 2008 - 02:20 PM

Maxtor makes a pretty good External HD.

Or the MyBook series. They also make pretty good ones.

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#26 chugg

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Posted 21 September 2008 - 01:52 AM

i bought this hardrive 2.5 months ago and it is still sitting here. I cant figure out how to get everything on my computer on it.

#27 chugg

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Posted 23 September 2008 - 03:41 PM

Can someone please help me with this? I have this sitting here and really need to use it but cant figure this out. PLEASE!

#28 garmanma

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Posted 23 September 2008 - 04:37 PM

You have the drive, disks, and instructions. What do you need to know?

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Posted 04 October 2008 - 02:04 PM

Does anyone know how to password protect this removable hardrive so when someone clicks on the removable hardrive shortcut they would have to put in a password? I have alot of social security numbers on this because it is my work computer.