Questions & Answers for G-Tech 500GB G-DRIVE USB 3.0 Slim Portable Hard Drive

depends on the size of ur pic, why not first find out how big are ur photo files and see if its less than 500gb?

• Answered by Yijing G
• Mar 18, 2013
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Hi!
You ARE able to do this, and the disk does not need to be partitioned. If you backup using the Time Machine utility on Mac OS X, it will create a file which is the back up. In my case, I have my MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and iMac all backed up to the same HDD as it saves each as an individual disk image (.dmg)

hope this helped!
Tarek

• Answered by Tarek B from St Clair
• Nov 24, 2012
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USB hard drives are fairly universal and as long as your Mac has a USB port (if it was made in 1999 or later it probably does) it will work.

• Answered by Alexander J from Winston-salem
• Dec 13, 2012
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Yes you can clone your Mac to this drive with the proper software. FIrst you need to make sure that the 500 gig external hard drive is big enough to transfer all of your data from your Mac. If so, you have several options.

You can use Time Machine that is included in OS 10.5, but unfortunately this is not going to clone your Mac hard drive to the new external hard drive. It saves most of your data, but it will not make a bootable drive out of the external hard drive. If you want an exact copy of the Mac hard drive, you can use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. I have used SuperDuper! for several years and coincidentally I had to use it last weekend when my MacBook Pro hard drive corrupted. You can run your Mac off of the external drive and restore your data back to the original drive in your Mac computer. There are free versions to try, and SuperDuper has a paid version with extra features. Carbon Copy Cloner does the same thing but costs a bit more. If you're interested in either of these programs, you can do a search and you can download these programs from one of the usual download sites.

• Answered by William W from Hesperus
• Oct 30, 2012
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Yes, it will.

• Answered by Steven H
• Nov 27, 2012
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The Slim drive is slimmer than the mobile USB drive. BTW I think the new USB 3.0 version of the Mobile USB drive only comes in 750Gb and 1Tb versions.

• Answered by Paul G
• Oct 2, 2012
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From the webpage of Manufacturer:
"G-DRIVE slim comes preformatted HFS+ with Journaling and is Time Machine ready right out of the box! A simple initialization is all it takes to prepare G-DRIVE for use with Windows® systems!"

• Answered by Hairo G V from Miami
• Oct 3, 2012
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