Formatting External Hdd In Windows 10 From Laptop

After formatting it works on Windows 10\11, the speed is excellent and the shell itself is of high quality

lost the hdd in a recent move in my newest laptop.  replaced with this.  was a breeze.  just installed and used windows media tool to install fresh windows 10.  so easy even grandma should be able to do it...wow its a lean mean blazing machine now...

I replaced an OEM HDD on a Windows 8 HP G7-2246nr laptop with this SSD using Macronium Reflect Free. Noticed improved speed right away. Old HDD was hot to touch when removed. Glad it's gone. Here is what I did. 1) Created system image of entire old HDD to additional external USB HDD using Windows 8 File Recovery tool just in case. 2) Purchased USB 3 to SATA cable. 3) Installed Reflect and viewed support page that explains how to use Reflect. IMPORTANT 4) Cloned all partitions of old HDD in the same order that they are listed under source disk (0) in Reflect. Since is was downsizing from 512 GB old HDD to 240 GB SDD, I paused after dragging C: into destination disk to resize it down to 197 GB and set the drive letter from Auto to C. 5) Added all subsequent partitions including D for recovery (25 GB). Finished Clone keeping all partitions at original size except for C drive. 5) Shut down laptop and swapped out the hard drives and rebooted. Windows 8 recognized the SSD and there was no need to go into EUFI.

Worked great with my Windows 10 laptop. I did not need to use the Driver DVD.

I have thoroughly tested this external HDD (with WD's software), reformatted it for larger sectors, and bought a high-impact case for it. It will hold all of my photos from Lightroom so that I can easily work on everything using my desktop while at home and on the road with a laptop. I will soon set it up with Bit Locker and find the cheapest way to back it up on the cloud. I wish it had a faster interface, but USB 3.0 will suffice. Please note that I use a separate and smaller 2Tb WD My Passport to back up the laptop and a far larger 5Tb external HD to backup the desktop. Some do not like the appearance of this product. I like its high-tech look. I picked red to remind me of my darkroom days.

This is just what was needed for more flexibility during presentations. Works great with my Windows 10 laptop.

Be using it to connect a laptop to Ethernet and work works without any issues in Windows 10.

Do not use power2 go software included and do not use, buy, or install any version of it including 13. Does no work in windows 10 OS to recognize or see usb external burners or blu-ray burners. Just had a e-mail chats with the company and they played it down like nothing was wrong, was working ok until some update windows did and the power2go started malfunctioning. Troubleshooted the not recognizing my usb Asus blu-ray burner any more to their software problem. Used this software for years, but, not now. Told them I was dropping their software due to it not working any more in windows 10 Pro 64 OS and started using Ashampoo burning Studio 23 which works just fine and recognizes the Asus external Blu-ray usb drive. Cyberlink is not keeping up to date on their software updates and malfunctions in windows 10 environment and has dropped off the top 15 lists for burner software and their reviews are not good any more. Other that that, this drive is a great external blu-ray burner and bought as an update to the BW-12D1X-U, thou it is large and bulky and works best with desktop computers not having a blu-ray burner.

A USB-C to DisplayPort adapter was necessary to connect an external monitor to the office supplied Windows laptop. This fairly inexpensive adapter does the job well with no video artifacts while performing typical office tasks. When connected the monitor was instantly recognized by the OS and the adapter didn't cause any issues.

Tested with Shure SM58S mic on windows 10 PC/Laptop. Works with both.