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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It means it will work on either the older USB 2.0 ports or the USB 3.0 ports that are on newer computers in the last few years. Either way, this hard drive should work just fine. I have the USB 2.0 ports and it works great.
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I am NOT an expert, but it made old drives I took out of my old laptops behave like external drives. Your new computer will probably ignore all your VISTA files on the old drive. It is mainly a way to access data files on your old drive.
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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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I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with a 3.0 PCI add-on card connected to the 7 Port USB hub. I have a Seagate 2TB, 3TB and 4TB 3.0 drives attached as well as 320GB and 500GB USB 2.0 drives and have no problems. Just remember any USB 2.0 drive is still limited to 2.0 speeds. Some of the drives are network shares and still I have had no problems. The 7 Port USB Hub works great for me.
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There is no reason it shouldn't work with Vista - Samsung installs all the drivers and BlueRay movie software. Works great for making backing up your home movies. I have it working on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
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Any external USB hard drive can be used via the USB ports, the seagate HD is necessary to for the "convenient" slide in interface (it still leaves both USB ports open)
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That drive is compatible with WINDOWS OS from XP through 8.1 64 bit. So it will work with VISTA. . Hope this helps!
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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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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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I have it installed in a 64 bit Windows 7 machine and the install and operation is flawless. I would assume there should be no issue on a Vista system but I don't know for a fact.
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I have Vista Home Premium and it works fine. Was recognized as soon as I plugged it in.
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The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.
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What did you find-out about 64 bit compatability. So far< I have not found any drive compatable with 64 bit Vista.
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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 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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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.