Using this external drive can you do a bootable backup? In other word your O/S, apps and documents.
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Yes, however I dont recomend this product, I use Mybook Studio by WD, I had a Seagate and it totally crashed they are too too sensitive.
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WD comes with Windows backup software. It's somewhat rudimentary but it works.
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yes, all it is an external drive, so it would not run an operation system, but you can retrieve data off of it like a usb tumb drive and use it as extra storage for acomputer.
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Maybe. The form factor is ok, but I don't know, if this system can use the drive.
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Any hard drive that is designed to attach to your device can be used. All you need is to reinstall your operating system software. Or you can use it as a ghost drive as a backup.
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Yes you can backup to a drive connected to a USB 3.0 port but no... you cannot boot directly off that drive if your drive is connected on a USB 3.0 port. You have to reconnect it to a USB 2.0 port as the BIOS cannot read directly from a 3.0 port. This isn't a big issue as most times you are backing up rather than recovering.
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It'd probably be best to consult the WD web site. I didn't partition mine, but I did make it bootable.
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you can move your OS to it. I use it on my Maximus VI Formula as a spare drive though, but I can put my OS on it.
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I haven't tried it but I can say that it is fast enough to use as an alternative bootable drive.
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Yes with three provisos. First what you are backing up must easily fit into two 3TB of space. Second, the Seagate could also crash and third, you need to use a back-up program which makes the Seagate a startup drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.
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Yes, in one of two ways. You can partition the whole drive as ExFAT, or have a Windows partition (FAT32) and a Mac partition (HFS+).
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Yes, no problem. When the screen "asks" you for the location to be backed up enter that external drive letter.
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yes it can be and a lot of times if your operating system crashes you can put the hard drive in an external case and save a lot of your data
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Hi, I'm not 100% certain but if I remember correctly I did use it as a clone at one point to backup OS10.8.6 before upgrading to 10.9 Mavericks and did boot from this Seagate via Thunderbolt. I hope I'm not misleading you though because there were a lot of other external drives floating around this same time, but quite sure.
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Yes. You can use Synology Data Replicator or you can use the standard backup program that comes with windows. See synology link for instructions. https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/tutorials/454
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This is not a RW (Rewritable) disk but, yes you could use this to make backups of almost anything.
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Yes. And it can work as a personal Cloud Backup as well. Support Dropbox, Box and Drive integration too!