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lacie external drive [in]compatiblity with windows 7

Posted on 2011-03-09

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I have several Lacie external drives and plan to buy two more now. They work fine on my XP computer.
However one of my PCs already runs windows 7 and I will soon reformat and install windows 7 on the XP machine.

I have seen from some fora that there may be compatibility issues with lacie / windows 7, and i see that windows 7 is NOT mentioned on the list of OS in some of the adverts . Hard to believe that window 7 would NOT be catered for, at least through a driver download, but am reluctant to buy without advice.

many thanks,

Alex

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by:ovykan

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ID: 350828972011-03-09

I have 3 lacie hard drives and they work fine with windows7. You can buyit without any problems.

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by:Randy Downs

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ID: 350829542011-03-09

You could put one of your drives on the Windows 7 PC to give it a test drive

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by:ortholithos

ID: 350830542011-03-09

many thanks

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