Support for Windows XP is ending soon

Hi Shenan Stanley,

     Google is not a REAL favorite of mine either, I would stand clear of it any way you can. NOT since I got hacked by them, as being named on a long list of users by YAHOO. Com. IF you want to be scammed by the email. Every time I want to download Adobe Reader 11, I get Google's toolbar and Google Chrome, as soon it is all loaded, I unstall Google and all of its extensions and delete all of its remenant folders.

Be Dammed any spyware you have or antivirus software, it is only a temporary liccensed by the makers and they too are not to be trusted because they are only insterested in your money also and have NO interest in you as the user! Only when it FREE like Microsoft Security Essecentials, you can trust it! THE best security is not use the Internet AT ALL because you have a less of a chance being hacked by adware, spyware and a virus ... In my case, I do it by changing hardware daily and that is your best defense also. It is not a software issue anymore, it is also a hardware issue, I wont tell you HOW but is for you to invest in something better than a one lung (Drive) PC like a stupid notebook has! there is no real backup offline elsewhere at your disposal or use.

From Edmond The Hardware and software engineer

What are you talking about? I may not like search engines (in general, not just Google) either, because I hate unreliable search results (which is why I typically use the search bar on official websites that have information about their own products), but it's not Google's fault if you find malware in a search result. If something is not detected automatically, then it takes time to manually remove that entry, and people are going to get hit by that entry within the time it takes to remove it. That doesn't mean anything is Google's fault.

Now for sure I have decided to unsubscribe from this thread and never come back to it again: I'm tired of reading multiple nonsense posts a day, seven days a week. Reply to me, I don't care, but please understand that there is a zero percent chance of me reading it.

And when you install Adobe Reader, don't just uninstall the Google stuff: uncheck it in the first place when you download Reader. (as is the case with a lot of other software in the world)

ONE PC is also not enough! It is like putting all your EGGS (DATA) in ONE basket. There is NO real backup!

From Edmond The Hardware and software engineer

Again, I ask: what are you talking about? If an external drive in unplugged and electronically powered down, malware can't touch it. Offsite/online storage is in case of a disaster such as a fire.

You might be able to split the drive into 4 partitions of 768GB with disk management (probably need a newer computer to split it up). This is one thing that you could search before you buy it. Also keep in mind that a drive can only hold up to four partitions, but based on that, I did the math for by saying 768GB.

I agree that if people wanted to run old games and other software, reinventing an ancient operating system isn't the way to do so. There would have to be some sort of compatibility programs, sort of like Wine on Linux, or Java on any system.

I know that Windows 7 x64 can run some 32-bit Windows 95/98 games and others may not work so well. I've only tested one game though. If I could find other discs for some of my older games I would try them, not to test them but because I miss them. Compatibility isn't my problem: I lost my discs.

I'm also aware that x64 doesn't have the 16-bit emulator like before. I've also heard that Windows 8 completely dropped the 16-bit subsystem, 64-bit or not, but there's DosBox (spellcheck doesn't like DosBox?) for that.

Like I've said before, I would rather have Vista than XP. Whenever I use an XP computer momentarily, I think about how I can't do this or can't do that or this or that. Windows XP lacks features that I use several times a times a day.

Repeating a small section of my previous reply to you...

"Windows XP sees a 3TB drive as 800GB on boot or data drives"

I do not have a need for such massive storage so I cannot verify this from personal experience (or even experiment to find out) but Seagate do manufacture these things, so they really ought to know.

I'm not saying that there aren't workarounds available, there might be. All I am doing is pointing out to you that there are limitations imposed by the architecture of your hardware and the OS that you are using that will make using a 3TB drive complicated or maybe even impossible.

You should do your research before rushing out and buying one expecting that it will be a simple plug and play purchase.

Tricky