can i backup my computer on a interal hard disk drive
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Sure. But if you are backing-up your OS, you should be doing that to a second physical internal hard drive.
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Hi, The hard disk drive is independent with the OS. It depends on the connection port and the standard of hardware of the computer. The best way for you is to check the old hard disk drive on your computer and buy a new one with the same specifications.
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If your question is can you backup data from an external drive connected to your laptop, the answer is yes. If you are a Mac user this drive should appear on your desktop just like the external drive from which you want to backup the data. You can then use the backup program of your choice, such as Carbon Copy Cloner. I'm not a PC user but I assume that you would be able to see this drive under the "Computer" setting from the start menu (not sure about where it is in Windows 8). Then you could backup data from the external drive connected to your laptop to the Seagate drive. You might need some help from someone who uses PCs.
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no. and the drive is custom built from wd with all connectors on the drive. you cannot take out the drive inside it and use as internal drive on your computer.
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No it's a blank hard drive. You will need to format to what ever operating system u are using.
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It does work well. It will let you read the hard disk and allow you to either backup or you can transfer the files to another computer.. It's a great thing to have even if you have the oldest hard disk ever. If I were you, you may want to check the connections in your computer. Try that..
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That question would be more if you computer supports booting up from an external drive. Any drive is just that a storage device. So this question goes to your computer not the drive you will use.
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Yes with three provisos. First what you are backing up must easily fit into two 3TB of space. Second, the Seagate could also crash and third, you need to use a back-up program which makes the Seagate a startup drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.
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Yes. You can specify which folders to be backed up, the type and frequency to be used.
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It did not work for me. My advice is do not take a chance on it. I downloaded the FREE EaseUS ToDo Backup application and cloned my entire hard drive to a smaller solid state drive as easy as copying files in windows. Then I just plugged the new drive and it started the computer just like the old one. I can't imagine it can be easier than this.
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yes it can be and a lot of times if your operating system crashes you can put the hard drive in an external case and save a lot of your data
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Yes. Clear off the WD software, and use Mac Time Machine, if you're using it for backup. Or partition it using any format you like and use it as a storage device.
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Any hard drive that is designed to attach to your device can be used. All you need is to reinstall your operating system software. Or you can use it as a ghost drive as a backup.
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It is possible, I don't think there would be any harm to the hard drive unless you reformatted to match the computer. You should be able to plug it in, go through your explorer to find the device and accomplish what you want from there.
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Yes!!! remember this is like a big pendrive! you must create two folders: Pc A and Pc B, and back up the computers inside, good luck!.
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It is a portable unit so unless you leave it plugged into your computer you will not be able to do backups but if you leave it attached all the time you can have auto backup through your antivirus program like Norton
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Kristin,Carfam is right. Just to add: you can do it manually without the backup tool or even with the included backup tool (using the external for two or more systems).