Drive too full

There's in settings an option of 'override' old backups. Just check it.

1. Open the windows explorer and navigate to where the backups are.
2. Switch your view to details
3. See which backups are the newest, don't delete them
4. Delete the rest.
5. Configure the Backup process to make fewer backups, like once per month, or one full, then several incremental ones.

Format Hard drive and them backup only 1 time. In the future, create an additional backup and then after that delete the oldest backup. I backup my system about every month.

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Delete older images or, modify backups by using selective items instead of broad strokes like the whole drive. You could backup with less frequency.

There is the options of doing Differential backup and less Full backups.


Swap out tape or hard drive.

The first question to ask is what have you got on your D: drive - do you have any movie files saved there? (.MPG .AVI etc) - if so, then these should be either copied to DVD media or to an external USB hard drive.
The next question is what operating system are you using? - if you are using Windows 7 then have you set your D: drive as the target for where Windows Backup should put it's files - if so, then go into the Backup settings and change the number of System images to be kept to be only 1 and also look at how many old backups you have got - you can delete some of the older ones to make more room.
Next, you could install the free Advanced System Care utility software which provides a tool called "Disk Explorer" which will show you what large files and folders are on your D: drive and allow you to take actions to delete, move, put on CD or DVD etc to make more space.
Finally, once you have made more free space, then you would be recommended to do a Defrag of drive D: to improve the performance of the drive - again the makers of Advanced System Care provide another utility called Smart Defrag which can help with this task.
If you are using Windows XP there is also a free utility called Folder Size for Windows which works with Windows Explorer to give you an extra column you can select to show the size of folders on any drive.

If your seagate drive is full then it wont let you back it up you will need a bigger storage space or by cleaning out your computer you can remove the backup by going into backup options locate by double clicking the flag in the bottom right hand side of your monitor and delete it or by going into your seagate and deleting the backup folder forcing it to back it all up again

Check the backup settings in the software that came with the device. You may be saving every backup instead of saving incrementally. An incremental backup will back up the files that have changed after doing one full backup.
You can also view the files on the drive through Windows Explorer.
The files should be dated. Delete the oldest files making sure that they seem to be the same size as the next oldest file.
If your computer is not faulty, and the files on the backup are not the only place that they are copied, you can start over with the backup drive, change the backup settings and create an incremental backup routine.
Depending on the size in Gigabytes of the backup drive, you are limited to the amount of data you can back up.
Example:
If you have a 500Gigabyte drive in your computer and the external backup drive is 250 Gigabytes,a full system backup will not fit.
Go to Windows Explorer, Click on My Computer and view the available space and total size for each drive.

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From Control Panel go to Add/Remove Programs

Remove programs that no longer useful to you and delete documents, pictures any file that you don't need anymore.
if you don't have nothing to do with removing programs and deleting files, you have to upgrade or add a secondary hard drive, or a external drive will be a helpful to you, move all your files to your external drive this will also counted as your backup files.

Delete some files or backups. If your backups are appending or creating a new file every time without replacing the old ones, it will eventually fill up.

If the drive is not full, it may be your file system. If the partition is formatted FAT32, you have a maximum file size of 4 GB. The backup will proceed until the file size reaches 4 GB, then it will close out and the rest of the files will not be backed up.

Using Disk Management, you can create a new partition, this tiime NTFS. Unfortunately, you'll lose all files on the drive when you partition so you'll need a place to move the files to temporarily.