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Will my drive work with Windows 7?



Seagate has evaluated current product lines to determine which ones will be supported in Windows 7.  Older drives that are not listed here may work, but have not been tested.  Note: Software not listed below is not supported on Windows 7. Using the drive as a drag and drop destination or with backup software built into Windows 7 can be an alternative. NAS devices require Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise version of Windows 7 when doing a network backup.

Hardware:

 
Product Hardware Additional Information 
Backup Plus Family Yes  
BarraCuda Fast SSD Yes  
FireCuda Gaming SSD Yes  
One Touch SSD Yes  
Ultra Touch SSD Yes  
Fast SSD Yes  
Seagate Duet Yes  
Seagate Wireless
Seagate Wireless Plus
Yes  
Seagate Expansion Yes

No Seagate software included.
Use Windows 7 backup and restore

Seagate Expansion SSD Yes

No Seagate software included.
Use Windows 7 backup and restore

Seagate Desktop Drive Yes

No Seagate software included.
Use Windows 7 backup and restore

Seagate Portable Drive Yes No Seagate software included.
Use Windows 7 backup and restore
GoFlex Family Yes  
FreeAgent Family Yes

 

Maxtor Family Yes Use the BlackArmor manager (launcher.exe on the drive) to unlock the drive.
Seagate Personal Cloud Yes

Remote access removed on 5/15/21

Seagate Central  Yes

Remote access removed on 4/8/18.

GoFlex Home Yes

Remote access removed on 2/28/19.

Seagate Internal Laptop and
Desktop SATA hard drives
Yes

 


Software:
 
 
Product Updated Software
Toolkit Yes*

*Toolkit support for Windows 7 has been discontinued as of August 2022. 
For more information, see this article.

Use Windows 7 backup and restore

Seagate Dashboard Yes Dashboard 4.2.x or higher
Paragon Driver for Windows Yes HFS driver 9.1 or higher
Seagate Duet software Yes 1.x or higher
DiscWizard Yes DiscWizard: v18 or higher
SeaTools for Windows Yes

SeaTools for Windows: 1.4.0.2 or higher

Seagate Dashboard Powered by Memo  Yes

Version 1554 or higher

Seagate Manager Yes Version 2.1.500 or higher
Replica Yes Version 3.0.769.6555 or higher
Maxtor Manager No Software was not updated for Windows 7