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Seagate FreeAgent | Xtreme External HDD Software on Vista Ultimate x64
As many of you who use Seagate External Hard Drives might know, the Seagate tools that come on the External HDD do not work with 64-bit operating systems at all. Which personally, makes me upset. Pretty much anyone who is really going to use 1-1.5TB HDD space is going to know what they are doing when it comes to computer, in the current day and age with the amount of ram swelling to over what a 32-bit operating system can handle, you would think that they would understand that people are going to start running 64-bit OS's and would need support for 64-bit OS's, but alas, no support at all... I'm wondering, I just went out and bought a 1.5TB Seagate FreeAgent XTreme External Hard Drive, and what utilities can I install on the External Hard Drive to back up my information? What kind of utilities do you guys use, if any, on External Hard Drives. I know I can backup manually, but it would just be nice if Seagate would come up to speed with the current world of computing... Is there some Hardware limitation? Or, is it as I think, they just aren't bringing things up to date... -- AnarchyCow |
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Seagate FreeAgent | Xtreme External HDD Software on Vista Ultimate x64
I never use ANY of the utilities supplied with the external drives. They
give them to you as a courtesy, so you don't have to purchase anything else. They are "usually" cut down versions of a superior product. I have paid for quality backup programs and use them with the external drive. The external drive can be bare and a good backup utility will still function with the drive. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "AnarchyCow" wrote in message ... As many of you who use Seagate External Hard Drives might know, the Seagate tools that come on the External HDD do not work with 64-bit operating systems at all. Which personally, makes me upset. Pretty much anyone who is really going to use 1-1.5TB HDD space is going to know what they are doing when it comes to computer, in the current day and age with the amount of ram swelling to over what a 32-bit operating system can handle, you would think that they would understand that people are going to start running 64-bit OS's and would need support for 64-bit OS's, but alas, no support at all... I'm wondering, I just went out and bought a 1.5TB Seagate FreeAgent XTreme External Hard Drive, and what utilities can I install on the External Hard Drive to back up my information? What kind of utilities do you guys use, if any, on External Hard Drives. I know I can backup manually, but it would just be nice if Seagate would come up to speed with the current world of computing... Is there some Hardware limitation? Or, is it as I think, they just aren't bringing things up to date... -- AnarchyCow |