Hard Drive Partitioning Question?

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Re: Hard Drive Partitioning Question?

@Si4e

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?