External HDD is USB HDD. You must be connecting it through USB port. Either you can use window software to get your work done or use third party software. In fact it is also a fixed HDD till it is connected to PC. So simply forget that this is some thing allien which can't be handled. Copy, paste & delete & format are the commands that will serve your purpose. Look imagine 10days ago you have taken a back up of some data by copy & paste. Now after 10 days you don't remember what you have copied & what you have not. Copy & paste all data about whom you are not sure also. If you have copied earlier it will ask you file already exists replace it or over write it, simply click no or click over write & yes to all. In this paste PC will not ask again. Always disconnect external HDD before deleting the source file.
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2007-04-04 05:13:49 UTC
It is not the stuff that we hear a lot. I feel that there is something you are missing to state or you had not noted. Just try the things once again and tell us the complete steps that you did even they may feel obvious to all. In that case we may catch something wrong from you or your device. Else wise you'll have to take help from some local professional.
anonymous
2007-04-04 05:11:35 UTC
What drive letter does your external hard drive come up as? And when you are copying it over are you sure you are doing the process correctly and not simply it to somewhere else on the C Drive? The other thing is are you sure the drive isn't overcapacity? That might cause this problem as well.
Paul B
2007-04-04 05:11:03 UTC
When you go into MyComputer(assuming you're using windows), do you see the external drive as a seperate hard drive? If so, save a song to you're C: drive and copy it to your external, then try deleting it and see on which drive it gets deleted from.
simonjohnlaw
2007-04-04 05:07:50 UTC
are you sure you are copying and not just moving the file
aqualung
2007-04-04 05:07:12 UTC
well what kind of software do you use to backup your computer??? most software uses your desktop as the "source" abnd copies things from the source to your external hd "destination". the software i use now for this is set to DELETE files that are in the "destination" but not in the "source".
anonymous
2007-04-04 05:05:57 UTC
are you sure you are copying and not just moving the file from your C: to the external?
anonymous
2007-04-04 05:24:06 UTC
In regards to your question. Make sure you are using the backup function on the external hard drive and not the synchronies one. In the synchronies function is useful to make backups but if you remove it from your C drive it will see the file as deleted on both.
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