“May I use half of the capacity of the HDD for "manual" backup and half for "sync" backup? May I use half of the capacity of the HDD for "manual" backup and half for "sync" backup? My internal HDD is 500GB”
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Yes you may! What you can do is go into the Disk Management utility in Windows (assuming that's what you're using) and you can shrink the current partition from the 1TB size to 500GB. Then you will have 500GB of free space where you can reformat it to be a new partition with a separate drive letter. Be sure to make the filesystem NTFS so it can take advantage of larger file sizes (FAT32 has a cap size of 4GB). From there you can do your manual backup to partition 1 and sync to partition 2 (you'll have to remember to specify where in the file sync program to go to your designated partition). Or what you can do is just do 2 directories. Call 1 just "backup" and another "sync" or something like that and point your file sync software to the "sync" directory. Hope that helps!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Dear frfar, You will notice that when you back up files, it rarely uses the same amount as stated on your original computer. Also, even though it states a set amount (i.e. 500Gb) there is 3% to 5% of drive that is used by the computer for storage and computations. One of the only way to copy the entire drive and export it is by using a shadow program. As for ANY external hard drive, you can partition it, or divide the storage space any way you like, much like a USB Flash Drive, but with much more space. You can even export all your info from your old computer and just leave it on the external drive, and use it as a possible second OS system.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.That's exactly how I used it, and it worked like a charm.
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