Backin' Up to a Big Hard One
sorry again, @metalpeter - nothing risque to be seen here. (again!)
drats.
I'll leave that to @paul and @hodown :)
I purchased a 1TB external hard drive over the weekend.
I went with the Western Digital My Book Essential Edition. After some research and checking price points, I felt comfortable going with this one at this time.
It is a simple plug and play utilizing its USB connection cord.
I have since backed up my music, photos and other files from my primary laptop, but I have plenty more to back up from my other computer and CD-ROMs, and even a slew of old floppy disks. I will continue to back up on disk (back up to the back up), then also back up on occasion to the external hard drive. I don't see myself having it continually in use at this point.
I now want to pull the tools off the drive (save them to a disk/flash drive) and reformat the drive to get that space back. I imagine I would lose everything I have saved to it so far? Anyway, I'm not in a hurry as I'm not hurting for the 465GB that it takes up, but would like to know that I have all that extra space for my precious belongings.
Here are some Google images:



drats.
I'll leave that to @paul and @hodown :)
I purchased a 1TB external hard drive over the weekend.
I went with the Western Digital My Book Essential Edition. After some research and checking price points, I felt comfortable going with this one at this time.
It is a simple plug and play utilizing its USB connection cord.
I have since backed up my music, photos and other files from my primary laptop, but I have plenty more to back up from my other computer and CD-ROMs, and even a slew of old floppy disks. I will continue to back up on disk (back up to the back up), then also back up on occasion to the external hard drive. I don't see myself having it continually in use at this point.
I now want to pull the tools off the drive (save them to a disk/flash drive) and reformat the drive to get that space back. I imagine I would lose everything I have saved to it so far? Anyway, I'm not in a hurry as I'm not hurting for the 465GB that it takes up, but would like to know that I have all that extra space for my precious belongings.
Here are some Google images:


