Windows 10: Windows 10 wont let me choose my external hard drive to save my backup files in.

Hi,


I have an Asus laptop and a Seagate 5T external hard drive. I have been trying to save a backup of my laptop documents but when I go into Setting and into Backup it won't let me choose my external hard drive. The external hard drive shows up when I click "Add a drive" and it has a bit over 4T of open memory but when I click on it, nothing happens. It still says "Add a drive".


When I look into my external hard drive files, the Files History folder is made but nothing is saved inside the folders. Not sure what is wrong here. My laptop has less than 1T of memory so the external hard drive has enough bandwidth to sustain all my files.

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saving and viewing files on an external hard drive

Hi Sam,

We appreciate you for being part of Windows 10.

Yes, you may format the external hard drive. Follow the below steps.

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  Connect the external hard drive to Windows 10 computer.
  
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  Press Windows + E keys on the keyboard to the keyboard to open the file explorer.
  
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  Locate the external hard drive on left navigation pane in File explorer.
  
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  Right click on the external hard drive and click on
  Format.
  
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  Click Start and follow on screen instructions to format the hard drive.
  

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

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

 

Hard Drive / External Drive + Backups Configuration?

I run 2 500GB drives in RAID-0. (Seagate 7200.12 drives)

This is very good advice. I have lost my array once. *Mad I backup weekly to an external, and also copy any important files (work data, game saves, pics, etc.) to my 500GB "personal" drive. So basically, I have an image of my Array saved to the external, and a copy of "My Documents" backed up to the internal 500GB.

Moral of the story: Definately backup often, whether running a RAID array or not. *Toast :toast: