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05-22-2008
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| vista home premium | Re: External Hard drive for Vista 64 Good discussion but there is a caveat you have not mentioned. The software used to backup to the WD does NOT work with vista 64. All the neat WD features (Backup Anywhere, etc.) fail on a 64 bit system. I am now looking for a drive AND its associated software that works with vista 64. Any suggestions? |
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05-22-2008
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| | Re: External Hard drive for Vista 64 Buy the drive and software separately. I use Acronis True Image Home edition for Vista Ultimate x64 and Vista Home Premium x64. "accessteam" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:9f2117e2536d040087bc11a3c12d5972@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Good discussion but there is a caveat you have not mentioned. The > software used to backup to the WD does NOT work with vista 64. All the > neat WD features (Backup Anywhere, etc.) fail on a 64 bit system. > > I am now looking for a drive AND its associated software that works > with vista 64. Any suggestions? > > > -- > accessteam |
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05-23-2008
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| vista home premium | Re: External Hard drive for Vista 64 Thanks, I just found Acronis as well. It is not the easiest software to understand but it seems to work ok. I plan to write a backup stategy and then try to implement it in Acronis. Wish me luck. |
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06-05-2008
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| Vista Home Premium x64 | Re: External Hard drive for Vista 64 Interesting... I have a dual-boot PC (Win XP Pro 32 bit and VISTA x64). The Nextar3 plugged through eSATA (ASUS P5B) was seen until a few days ago when I updated BIOS (for another problem). Since then, only XP sees the external drive (in a Nextar 3 encavure). Under Disk Management, I can see this ''disk 0'' (dynamic) as unactivated (in Vista) - I don't even see the two volumes on it anymore. (And the drive had been plugged there way after my Vista installation). Under XP, I have no problem at all... I have been trying to find a fix to that at Microsoft forums, and a few others as well, but the only reply was to convert to basix disk - which would then require to wipe out a few installations that I use only under XP... And Microsoft knowledged base suggest to ''reactivate'' disk with a simple right-click, but I don't even see that option possible (it's not there, not even in grey !)... Anyone finally found a fix to that ?  Quote: Originally Posted by Sirboy  I'm a newbie to Vista and was hoping to find some help. I have Vista Ultimate 64 installed on my new pc (AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ processor, Asus M2N-E mobo, 4 X 1gb Kingston pc2-6400 ram, WD 500gb SATAII hard drive, Asus GeForce 8500GT Silent 512mb video card, Antec Sonata III 500W case, LG 20X DVD+- drive). I wanted to buy an external hard drive to transfer my family pics and vids from my XP box to my Vista box. Been reading about some external hard drives not working with Vista x64. I've also read that I might ned to re-install Vista with the external hard drive connected. Can anyone recommend an external hard drive that will work with Vista x64? Need at least 250 gb hard drive but maybe around 500-750 would be optimal (wife takes lots of pics/vids of the kid  ).Thanks in advance! |
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