Seagate external hard drive

westgolf

I was searching for stuff in my junk room at the weekend and found an old external hard drive, Seagate brand. Was thinking of making it a backup to keep in a secure place. Any easy way of formatting this drive and then copying the laptop to it ?

coylemj

What's the capacity of the old drive relative to your current laptop drive? If it's only a fraction of the capacity then it may not be of any use except maybe as an archive for photos.

You can just plug it into the laptop and format it, then for backup use something like the free version of Macrium Reflect You need to pay for the version which does partial and incremental backups.

westgolf

coylemj wrote: »

What's the capacity of the old drive relative to your current laptop drive? If it's only a fraction of the capacity then it may not be of any use except maybe as an archive for photos.

You can just plug it into the laptop and format it, then for backup use something like the free version of Macrium Reflect You need to pay for the version which does partial and incremental backups.

Seagate drive is 1tb. Laptop isn't tight for space, was thinking more of making a backup of all that's on the laptop as a disaster plan.

Suckit

Format it using Windows built in tools, or something like Diskwipe.

And to make a backup you can use Robocopy or DriveImageXML