I reformat all my external drives to clean them then drag and drop
files to them.
Works like a charm.
Lea
life is short. photograph it.
www.leamurphy.com
On Jun 13, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
What I suspect is happening is there is something in the plug and
play driver that MAKES you use their software. Yet questions to two
or three of their tech support people said that wasn't necessary. I
didn't want to be forced into their software and turning the
automatic switch off. I wanted to do as much as a I could to make
sure that nothing but my images make this drive. I don't want to
have a virus to show up again time and time again for years to
come. It should have been as simple as select folder, copy to and
wha la, its done.
Am I ticked off? You bet. I wouldn't be nearly as upset if they
had just told me up front you must use our software. You must do X,
but that's not what happened. The drive I got is probably better
for my needs in many ways than the other. Less storage space, but a
better size and more portability. Still even though that one
worked, the outside of the package was at best misleading and at
worst downright deceptive. It is a USB drive, but no where did it
say you needed two ports, show the cable, or show an image of how it
hooked up till after you bought it. If it was there, I sure didn't
see it. Wouldn't one think that would be information you need to
know before you bought it? Yet it wasn't something one could know
till the drive was yours and you opened the plastic clam shell.
I will give Best Buy credit. They swapped them with no questions
asked or no problems at all. Will someone remind me again. Was
film really such a pain??? lol
--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Formyrotts@xxxxxxx <Formyrotts@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Formyrotts@xxxxxxx <Formyrotts@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Seagate
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 7:32 AM
Hi, :)
Just a note on the external hd that was Seagate 500. It
sounds like you
bought the same one I did at Best Buy. So far, even
though I can be dumb as a
rock, it seems to be working like a gem! I did the
automatic save (having
burned most everything to a CD and deleted from my hard
drive anyhow) onto the
external, then started poking around in the Seagate program
and figured out how to
shut off the automatic save. Now I just save what I want
onto it, I have
another one which I bought to use as a mirror (just
incase), as someone mentioned
that to me--I've learned to listen to those with more
experience then I have.
Oh, one thing I found interesting was the fact that Seagate
and Maxtor seem
to be somehow related, oh well. Linda B.
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