Can I throw my already used 4tb drive into it without formatting?
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yes. I simply moved 4 drives (2x3TB, 2x2TB) from my mediacenter pc in to this hub. The drives were recognized and listed in 'My Computer' exactly as they were when they were physically in the computer. There was a reboot after initial discovery and that was it.
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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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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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Sorr y my first answer was not complete. You can down load software for wd and seagate drives that will recognize and format them.
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There are many format and NTFS file conversation programs available on the web. If you reformat and specify NTFS, you will lose any existing data. Conversion is safer but I'd backup it all anyhow. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456984.aspx
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William,Yes you can, the diskless EX4 through the 16 TB EX 4 cases/software are all the same and will accept the WD 4TB drives
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I am really sure but, you would probably lose 3-4 GB of data because of manufacture formatting, I would suggest go with 2TB.
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You can format this drive to either FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, or whatever. Will work for system backup or making a recovery disk.
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Not if it isn't retail. I usually buy oem drives, they just arrive in bulk. If you are loading any Windows version, it will format the drive.
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It is formatted for NTFS Windows OS. Also, I have dropped it once when I was getting out of the car. The drive is totally unusable due to bad sectors after that.
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Look for Overview of Disk Management in Admin Tools and format your disc using GPT. Then you will see all 4tb (though you won't get all 4tb, nobody does.)
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There is an option to format the drives once you log in but it won't automatically format the drives when you install them into the unit.
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William, Yes you can, the diskless EX4 through the 16 TB EX 4 cases/software are all the same and will accept the WD 4TB drives
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As the others have said, it's just like hooking it up inside your computer as far as that goes. You can do the same things you could if it were installed as a permanent HDD, including formatting.
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If your using it as a secondary drive Windows will reformat it for you. I reformatted mine several times.
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I wouldn't do that. I'd use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your drive first. If you can.
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No but you can boot from a standalone CD program and make a copy of a drive that has been freshly formatted.
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Yes you can. I have couple of 1tb from Seagate, couple of 2 tb from both Seagate and western digital and a 5 tb from segate. All worked fine with existing data no issues except the 5tb as I had to change the file allocation type to be recognized.
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Go to disk management service (diskmgmt.msc in command prompt window or Start text box) and it will let you format it.