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Samsung usb hard drive formatting and software

KirstyK

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Posted September 8, 2012 at 8:41PM

Does anyone have a Samsung S2 1TB Portable 2.5 Inch USB 2 External Hard Drive? If so, does it come ready formatted (different sites say different things!)? Also, can you use back up software such as Avanquest on it? How have people found this product? Would you recommend it?

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lotvic

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Posted September 8, 2012 at 9:48PM

You can download the .pdf specification sheet from http://samsunghdd.seagate.com/

It seems that for sata harddrives Samsung have have joined up with Seagate ClickHere for info

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lotvic

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Posted September 8, 2012 at 9:59PM

This support S Series Clickhere gives more indepth info. There is a link on the left for the User Guide pdf. Also click on the tabs at top for different sections. You will note that it is on seagate.com website....

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rdave13

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Posted September 8, 2012 at 10:09PM

I don't have that particular drive but boot up the PC, log in. Once all your software have started then plug in your usb drive. Windows will then apply the drivers. You will need then to go to Disk Management to format the drive with MBR, unless you have an alternative disk management software to Windows.

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