A:AnswerYes, this hard drive will allow you to perform a full system backup of your Windows 8 laptop.
Out of the box, you have two options:
1) Use the Seagate utility to perform a snapshot/backup of your system and maintain any deltas.
2) Windows has it's own built-in backup utility. This option will snapshot your system configuration and files (if you choose to do so). That way, once you replace your dying HDD, you can restore a little more efficiently because most of your system configuration will already be in tact.
You may have to reinstall your applications. i.e. adobe, office 2013, etc.
A:AnswerFirstly, congratulations on your new purchase. To answer your question; Yes, it does say Desktop Drive on the box, but I assure you that it is the exact same product that you ordered. It is most definitely compatible with your Xbox One.
A:AnswerYes it does, I use the same OS. You just have to download a file from Seagate to make the drive writable an Mac, because it actually come as a windows ready drive. No big deal though, I can now use it on Windows and Mac, very versatile drive.
A:AnswerWhile I own an Xbox One, I'm sure that use with PS4 would be just as easy. It's pretty much plug and play, after a short formatting period. There is no need to swap drives with you PS4. If you ARE looking to swap drives, then there are many better choices than this particular model and cheaper too. Hope this helps.
A:AnswerThe TV wont store your videos but it should play them probably with a Mini USB to USB cable and the Roku Media player app and or ,
"The following Roku players and software versions currently have screen mirroring enabled:
***Roku TV Currently on most Roku TVs. (Other Roku TVs will receive the Screen Mirroring feature in a future software update)- (software v6.2 and above)
Don't see the software version on your Roku right away? Update your software by going to Settings>System>System update and check for an update.******
Roku 4 Model 4400 (software v5.6 and above)
Roku 3 Model 4200, 4230 (software v5.6 and above)
Roku 2 Model 4210 (software v5.6 and above)
Roku Streaming Stick Model 3500, 3600 (software v5.6 and above)
Note: Roku Premiere (Model 4620), Roku Premiere+ (Model 4630), and Roku Ultra (Model 4640) will receive the Screen Mirroring feature with the Roku software OS 7.5 update. "
https://support.roku.com/article/208754928-screen-mirroring-overview
A:AnswerYou will need a network backup solution. One can be achieved relatively cheaply, as you may already have the components in your current setup at home.
If not, they can be purchased for under $300 depending on the speed and performance you desire.
1. First you will need a router/switch with usb connection capability. (optionally, you can use an ethernet port on the router if your external hdd has ethernet RJ-45 ports.)
2. You will need an external HDD with USB 2.0 or ethernet connection options.
3. Make sure all of the systems you desire to back up are on the same network (wireless or ethernet cable. Doesn't matter which you use, but there is significant performance difference over WiFi vs ethernet. Ethernet being much faster. Also depends on your computers and the speed of the drives). Connect the drive to the router and use the router software to present a SMB share from the drive.
Alternatively, you can skip the requirement for attaching the drive to your router/switch and attach it to your iMac or HP system and simply create a network share using that drive. (See creating network share for Mac or Windows at the Apple or Microsoft websites)
4. On your iMac, you'll want to create a new disk image to house the backups. Time Machine (assuming that's what you'll be using) will leverage this image later on in order to perform the backup service. See the screen shot below for an example of the configuration you will need.
On your iMac, go to "other" in the applications window/ launchpad and then "disk utility" and then select the option to create a new image. The screen shot will help beyond that point.
5. Once the disk image is created. You will need to unmount it from the "Finder" window on the lefthand side. Then open the network share location you created earlier and copy the image from your iMac to the network share location.
The copy may take some time depending on your network speed and disk size. don't be alarmed if it takes an hour or more for disk images larger than 100GB.
Once the image is copied. Double click it while still in the share location. This will mount the image from that location.
You can delete the one you created that is on the desktop.
Now open a terminal window and enter this command "sudo tmutil setdestination /volumes/MacBookProBackup"
**** NOTICE**** the command above is "sudo tmutil set destination /volumes/"the name of your disk image"
I only used MacBookProBackup because that's what I used in my example screenshot. ALSO, DO NOT INCLUDE THE QUOTATION MARKS IN THE COMMAND
**** END NOTICE ****
You will be prompted for a password. This is the password of the user account on the computer with administrative privileges/ root user (if enabled).
6. Now open Time Machine and make sure the image is being used for backup. If not, you can manually add it in the Time Machine menu. It will be one of the disk options.
The options for creating a windows backup on the HP will vary depending on the OS you are using, but the steps can be found on Microsoft's website.
Hope this helps...
