I backed up the PC’s hard drive to a stand alone seagate goflex with 1 Terra byte.
Windows created a partition “F/” for me.
question I have is when I want to back up another computer like a Laptop on to the same back up drive, will it create a separate partition or do I have to create that partiotion, and if a new partition is created does the whole drive get formatted or can one specify not to formatt what’s already on the F/ drive?
i’m assuming you plugged in this usb seagate goflex drive and windows assigned it a drive letter f:. You than began to copy/paste (drap/drop) your files from your c: drive to f: drive.
If the above is true then which ever computer you plug the seagate goflex into next, that computer will automatically assign which ever free drive letter it has available & it wont partition/delete/format the existing partition on the seagate goflex. It might get drive letter k: and when you open k: you will see all your existing data.
If you used a backup software to backup your data then you will have to look at the configuration options to find out if plans on overwritting or appending to the drive, but I have a feeling you copied/pasted (dragged/dropped) so you dont have to worry about data loss by plugging the seagate goflex into a different computer.
Re: Hard Drive Partitioning Question?
you could have spent 5 bucks more and bought a 1 mera byte instead of this tera byte jhanjhat..
Re: Hard Drive Partitioning Question?
i'm assuming you plugged in this usb seagate goflex drive and windows assigned it a drive letter f:. You than began to copy/paste (drap/drop) your files from your c: drive to f: drive.
If the above is true then which ever computer you plug the seagate goflex into next, that computer will automatically assign which ever free drive letter it has available & it wont partition/delete/format the existing partition on the seagate goflex. It might get drive letter k: and when you open k: you will see all your existing data.
If you used a backup software to backup your data then you will have to look at the configuration options to find out if plans on overwritting or appending to the drive, but I have a feeling you copied/pasted (dragged/dropped) so you dont have to worry about data loss by plugging the seagate goflex into a different computer.
Thanks, Windows 7 is what did the back up, so next if I back up another computer, the seagate knows the back is coming from a differrent computer and it assigns a new Partition/ drive letter?
However Windows 7 help is telling me there is a Shrink option that will shrink the volume on the first partion so a second or subsequent partion can be added..Right?
Re: Hard Drive Partitioning Question?
you could have spent 5 bucks more and bought a 1 mera byte instead of this tera byte jhanjhat..
Jhanjut to tub hoa jay asshanu innahan de samujh howay!
assi lakir de faqir asshanu aye nawain nakor jhanjut zara mushkil naal aounday nain :)
r u saying "Miara byte" is bigger than "Terra byte" :D
unlike yourself I only have two cumputers with barely 40 giga bytes total stored files.
figuring that Terra Byte equals 1024 Gigs, this will be more than enough for now.
and actually after Terra comes Petta then Exa and Zeta!