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WD Elements external hard drive

weemacs
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 7:56AM

I have a WD Elements external hard drive which has worked perfectly and done a weekly backup on my pc as scheduled. I now have a new pc and it doesn't back it up. Do I have to remove the old pc from the hard drive before it willinteract with the new one. I am running windows 7. Thanks

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gengiscant

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Posted August 25, 2011 at 9:48AM

Does Windows 7 see the WD Elements HDD?

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weemacs

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Posted August 25, 2011 at 4:38PM

Yes it sees the hard drive

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gengiscant

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Posted August 25, 2011 at 7:56PM

I am assuming that you have set up the backup for your new PC,it really does not matter what is already on the harddrive, as long as there is the necessary space for the new backup.

I have a drive that backs up three PC's so I would imagine you will need to look at your settings.

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duncan_pereira

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Posted August 25, 2011 at 8:21PM

Gengiscant is right. Try backing up your information from the old PC and see if it works. If so, you may need to reconfigure your settings. Did the HDD come with software?

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