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I have a Seagate Desktop Hard disk. I want to know how to delete the backed up files from the Hard disk. It automatically creates a file saying not to delete or modify anything saved in the backup. How do i delete the backed up files to clear up the desktop drive?
Re: I have a Seagate Desktop Hard disk. I want to know...
It's probably easiest to just format it. Right-click the device under My Computer and choose Format. Or if you have a mac use, Disc Utility under Applications, Utilities.
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Click start
control panel Administrative tools Computer Management Disk Management right click on
your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click
start two boxes Automatically
fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in
one box then select check now start then after its finished return and tick the
other box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress
any input may damage this drive. You might get
best results ticking in one box the returning after it has finished then
ticking the other box it might take
some time depending on the size of your disk but be patient. Hope
it helps.
You can convert FAT32 to NTFS, but you cannot reverse this process. If you want to set up the hard drive for FAT32 you need to delete the NTFS partition the create a new partition and then format in FAT32.
First thing first - STOP using your WD drive immediately! If you
continue using the disk drive, you significantly increase the risk that
the files you want to recover will be lost forever due to overwritten.
Every new file or action will take up more "free space" and reduce your
chances of retrieving your deleted files from WD. So really, you need to
act quickly.
The next step - get a good Mac HDD data recovery software to retrieve the data as most as possible.
I doubt that iTunes really moved/reorganized files on your computer.
iTunest may have created its own "Table Of Contents", presenting a "view" of all your files.
Open "My Computer" and open your external hard-drive.
The files should be in "your" order.
Open "My Documents". Open "My Music".
The files should be in "your" order.
If iTunes really did "reorganize" your files, there's no way to "go back", because "Windows System Restore" does not automatically created time-stamped backups of your 'My Documents' folder (nor of any external disk-drive -- where would it put that much data???).
Install the seagate manager on a different computer and decrypt the files there first then move it back to your computer using the basic copy/cut and paste.
I bought PC Beginner from www.PCbeginner.com . It has programs that I have used to recover photos. It has other good utilities on it too. It's a good disk to have.
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