Windows 10: How to backup my laptop to my external hard drive not to one drive?

I used to be able to automatically backup my laptop data to my external hard drive. However recently One Drive has hijacked that option and my external hard drive is no longer an option when I choose to backup my laptop data. How do I override this obnoxious change?????

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Free hard drive backup/restore program?

I am looking for a free (freeware) program that will back up and restore a hard drive. I'm looking to clone a few external hard drives. If the program will backup the used space instead of the whole drive this will be awesome! Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Creating a backup on an external hard drive

Hello,

I wanted to create a backup on an external hard drive (Toshiba Canvio). When I connect the drive to the USB port (tried all of the available ones in my laptop), I can see the files stored in the drive, save files to the drive and basically perform all the operations on the drive too. The problem starts when I want to create a backup of the system on that drive: In the Settings->Create a backup->Add disk I can not list that external drive. How to create the backup on that drive?

Laptop: Lenovo y50-70
Windows: 10 v. 21H1

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Is it possible to use windows backup utility for External Hard drive backup to External Hard drive

Hi, Ari94,

Have you tried using OneDrive for backup?

Install OneDrive on an External Drive

See the following steps:

How to take a full backup of Windows 10 on an External Drive