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Seagate backup plus hdd

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Nope. All you have to do is go to disk management, right click the unallocated space on your drive, and create a "New Simple Volume." It's very easy and it'll result in a regular drive attached to your computer. This assumes it's a brand new drive. If it's an old drive and you don't care about the contents, you can delete all partitions until it's entirely unallocated, and then do it.

Greetings. 

 

So i have this "Backup drive"..

can this be formatted and used as a normal external drive or is there some mumbojumbo in the controllers that make it go boom if its used to much ? .. 

 
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Nope. All you have to do is go to disk management, right click the unallocated space on your drive, and create a "New Simple Volume." It's very easy and it'll result in a regular drive attached to your computer. This assumes it's a brand new drive. If it's an old drive and you don't care about the contents, you can delete all partitions until it's entirely unallocated, and then do it.

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Nope. All you have to do is go to disk management, right click the unallocated space on your drive, and create a "New Simple Volume." It's very easy and it'll result in a regular drive attached to your computer. This assumes it's a brand new drive. If it's an old drive and you don't care about the contents, you can delete all partitions until it's entirely unallocated, and then do it.

that's exactly what i had in mind as well.. cant hook it up to my car. so i have to make it a normal hdd.. thx for confirming it !

 
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