Do I need to reformat my seagate external hard drive? Not enough space

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Hlmflowergirl

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I've successfully run 1 backup of my hard drive in the year since getting my new laptop. Seagate 500gb drive now says there is not enough room to back up my computer on it. I deleted the backup in hope of running a new one. I don't need all files backed up, just the ones I use for work and my email. (Think word and excel, not Photoshop, not talking about a great deal of space needed here...) It continues to say not enough space on the external drive.
I don't use the cloud. Backing up pictures would be great but not abso necessary. My computer has a 750 gig hdd itself, and there's tons of space free, so theoretically a 500 gig external drive should be able to handle it all...
So questions would include... Is there a way to choose which files to save (like there is with a flash drive)? Should I reformat the drive and/or partition it? Or do I need to get a new drive?
 
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Since you know your way around the computer and drag-and-drop isnt a problem for you i´d format the external drive and run it without the software.

Format it to NTFS, the softwares provided can be downloaded from Seagate again if you want them i belieave...
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If you are using the built in backup version in windows you get to choose what to backup. Normally i suggest people only having Pictures, documents and such to backup since that is mostly the vital information for people.
Then you can easily make a scheaduale for this to run once a week or so.
 
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Unfortunately this doesn't help. (Tried this multiple, multiple times.) Anyone else??
 
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I'm not the most tech-savvy person in the world but I've worked with them before, and my husband is an engineer. Grew up with computers, not scared of them. It's not a simple solution. I've tried the simple solutions. I'm just wondering whether I can (should) reformat the Seagate drive to erase everything, including the pre-installed software? Then do a drag-and-drop? Or should I purchase a new external hard drive b/c obviously this one's having issues?
Thanks for the help!!
 
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Fyllehund

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Since you know your way around the computer and drag-and-drop isnt a problem for you i´d format the external drive and run it without the software.

Format it to NTFS, the softwares provided can be downloaded from Seagate again if you want them i belieave but me personally have never used the softwares they provide, i usually just format the disk the first thing i do and run it as a clean disk.

If customers want a automatic backup i rather use the built in one for windows since it does the trick quite fine :)
 
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