Is the Apricorn DriveWire compatible with the Windows 8? My hard drive crashed (HP Desktop failed dst short/long test) and I need to recover a large amount of data I did not synch to the Cloud.
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Robert,I sued Apricorn on Windows 7 and Windows XP and had no problem. I am sorry I cannot answer your question about Windows 8. I am staying away from that OS.
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This device hooks up to the hard drive. It is a docking port. I it doesn't have anything to do with the software or Windows. If the hard drive still works, it will show up as a hard drive on whatever computer you hook it up to. If the crash fried the drive, I don't believe this device will help.
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Doubtful, I almost crashed 2 Windows 8 computers trying to install the drivers. I received a refund and the seller did not want the unit back so I threw it away.
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Has anyone tried this with Windowss 8 yet? I have the Qstartz BT-1000q that worked with Win 7, but USB driver does not work with Win 8.
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I actually had a bad drive that because of the simplicity of this device I popped in to see if I would have any better luck reading. The answer was no it behaved like you expected any hard drive to act installed in your system. It has no error correction capabilities any different than an internal hard drive on your system. If error correction could/or would be possible it would have to be something running/installed in your O/S
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I am on Win7 Professional and also ordered a drive to backup onto. It never worked and I sent it right back to Amazon. I then ordered from them a Buffalo DriveStation Axis 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive. Installed it with Acronis True Image 2013 as my software and it has been working great for the past 5-6 months. Not sure why the other drive did not work but I had an older Buffalo drive on my last PC and it worked fine under XP. It was too small for this system. That is the reason I went back to them. Hope this might help.
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I don't know, I use windows 7 with no problems. I could not find any info on windows 8.
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You can buy from Apricorn, $10 plus tax & shipping. You can also use a Y splitter USB cable. I had an older one for their EZ GigII that I had forgotten I had bought, so ordered the Y cable--which can also be used for other devices. So I have both, and ended up using the power supply. My problem is that I have a Dell laptop, and Apricorn software did not do an exact clone, leaving out the Dell partition, thus the resultant drive would not boot, missing the boot sector. Ended up using EaseUS, after trying WD Acronis and Partition Wizard, without success. So the Apricorn ended up just being an expensive enclosure.
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I'm not sure I'm using HP with Windows 8 and USB3. Sorry I couldn't help you very much.
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Windows 8 has the driver built in, however be aware that this part has an issue with Sandisk 3.0 Flashdrives. Windows blue screens after a few seconds. I researched this, and is seems to only be an issue with Sandik. My 2.0 drives work fine.
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I use it 2x per week to clone backup my notebook. No more backup software for me. I agree with R. West, but Apricorn's support site is great and they respond to emails that I have submitted, so you might ask there.
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".......with Windows 8.1?"&gt;&gt;Don't see any reason why not. It's an electro-mechanical switch. It doesn't know what your running nor does it care. "Can same copy of Windows be loaded on each drive?"&gt;&gt;Anytime you install a Windows OS from a disk to a drive as a new install you are risking key number and activation issues. It reads the HDD serial number and MB type etc and thinks it's a new machine. Clone your existing HDD's. You shouldn't have any issues. I cloned my primary HDD to another HDD of the same brand and specs (bought them both at the same time) and I have had zero issues with activation etc when I boot to the clone. I don't like "back-ups". I do a full blown clone at least once a month or even less. So far, so good. The other 4 channels on the Orico are devoted to Linux OS's. Hope this helps.
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I was able to use a PC running Windows 8 to read data I had put onto the WD Elements SE 500 GB with a PC running Windows XP. I didn't try installing Windows 8 or any other operating system on the WD Elements drive. I don't have the 1 TB version.
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If you are asking if the hp 3050a is compatible with windows 8.1, it is compatible. But if you are buying it used, make sure it has the disk. I thought I would save some money and buy used but it didn't come with the disk.
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The Atom CloverTrail Platform doesn't support Windows 7. The platform is built grounds up for Windows 8 features. Don't try it. Rakesh (Disclosure: I work for Intel #IntelTablets)
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The software for the carousel works best on Windows XP or Vista. I recall having tried it on Windows 7 64 bit but there were some problems. It works, creakily, but would freeze occasionally and require one to use the Task Manager to kill the entire process tree of the thread. I never tried to run it in a compatibility box and suspect it might work better that way. I'd give it a shot. Be advised. I have 22 of the units and use them all the time but I'm running them using an dedicated Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows XP.
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Don't know. I have windows 7 and have heard that windows 8 is a can of worms. I wouldn't make any compatibility assumptions.
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I don't believe I received a disk with Windows 8. Not sure if it's possible to swap out with Windows 7. I believe there were options to order other similar HP PCs with Windows 7 instead when I ordered htis.