How do you view backed up files to make sure they are there? How do you transfer backed up files to another computer? When I tried to to that, the device will only ask me if I want to back up the computer. I don't need to back up. I just need to copy the files (that should be on this external hard drive) onto the second computer. No book, no instructions. It seems like it is designed to plug in and trust that it will do the back up. If it won't, Toshiba doesn't care. They have my money and it is out of warranty. Don't waste your money on this one. How do you view backed up files to make sure they are there? How do you transfer backed up files to another computer? When I tried to to that, the device will only ask me if I want to back up the... » Read More How do you view backed up files to make sure they are there? How do you transfer backed up files to another computer? When I tried to to that, the device will only ask me if I want to back up the computer. I don't need to back up. I just need to copy the files (that should be on this external hard drive) onto the second computer. No book, no instructions. It seems like it is designed to plug in and trust that it will do the back up. If it won't, Toshiba doesn't care. They have my money and it is out of warranty. Don't waste your money on this one. « Show Less
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What computer and OS do you have? It is quite simple HDD To use I had mine for 3 years now. I will help you if I can but I need to know whether you on windows or mac?
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actually to my I've had wonderful! excellent... This hard disk brings a program to support but I never install this program, use it as a mass storage and it has worked perfectly! Thanks -en realidad a mi me ha ido de maravilla!!! excelente.. este disco dura trae un programa para respaldar pero yo nunca instale ese programa, solo lo uso como almacenamiento masivo y me ha funcionado a la perfeccion!! gracias
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Thanks for all the answers. Actually, I googled this and found out I could just drop and drag files using the Computer screen and that it working great to transfer the photos.Thanks again.
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http://www.justanswer.com/sip/toshiba?r=ppc|ga|2|HI%20-%20Appliances|Toshiba%20-%204&JPKW;=toshiba%20manual&JPDC;=S&JPST;=&JPA;D=24932317378&JPMT;=b&JPNW;=g&JPAF;=txt&JPCD;=20120125&JPRC;=1&JPOP;=Darren_Andrew9sec_Test&gclid;=CI_94MLG-LgCFchDMgodZTAA0A this is a tech support site where they answer your specific questions
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Normally when you plug in you should see the files on the drive from my computer which you can transfer, delete or copy to, sometimes computers asks you if you want to backup to a storage device, you should choose no, other than that if you keep on getting this backup issue there are free software you can use to retrieve your files from hard drives.
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Me too! I'm not going to seriously consider purchasing anything computer related unless I see the manual that goes with it. Is it (i.e., Canvio) truly plug and play? Can you selectively choose individual files to back up? I'm not at all interested in wasting time and space backing up files that I really don't wish to back up. (I only wish to back up photographs.) Filtering through all the comments, while helpful writ large, takes a lot of time when looking for particular information. A manual please.
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worked fine on mine. I have backed up a win8 laptop & win7 laptop on one c6 clickfree. I then checked randomly for specific files and found them without issue. I have not tried a restore at this time. So far I like it.
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From my experience, you just refuse Time Machine for the device once, and then you can use it as a normal backup/file transfer device. Although it is true that I reformatted the drive to work with Windows and Mac using eXFAT file system.
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I am not a tech guy. But, my experience with this drive is simple: it does not work. It looks like it saved the files but then the files are not there.
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I'm sorry. I don't see you asking a question here. What is your question? As you say, this Toshiba should definitely work with your laptop. And it doesn't require a power adapter. You just plug it into your computer via a USB 2.0 or 3.0 port. It is true their user's guide is almost non-existent and poorly written. I guess they figure the unit is so easy to use, a person can just figure out how to use it by reading the directions on the computer screen. Personally, what I find confusing is : what happens when you back up your computer so many times, you reach its 1TB limit, because apparently it keeps adding on the backup memory to the unit every time you back up? Does the unit automatically "delete" some or all of the least recent backup? It is a little confusing. Thanks.
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You plug it into the USB drive on your MAC.. and then navigate to it thru the Finder.. You can create a file structure and folders on the drive, and then move pictures and movies to the folders you have created... Or, if you are doing a full back up of your MAC drive, you would name the MAC as your source, and the G-Drive as your target- and use whatever software you have to do either a full or incremental backup.. Hope that helps.
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Data that you have saved to the USB flash drive can be moved to a location of your choice on your new computer using the copy command and then paste command under 'edit' in your file viewing program. Note that for some operating systems you can create a 'live' system of your operating system on a flsh drive and then boot from it and rebuild if something goes wrong. The scandisk 32 Gbt would be better for this. this
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I had a dying desktop, so it was challenging to rescue the old files. Finally was able to offload everything to a backup hard drive (I just cherrypicked the files I wanted to save), then uploaded them to my new laptop, plus had a backup copy ready made. Took most of a weekend. I had close to a hundred GB of data, mostly music mp3's and photos, so the CD solution was not reasonable. An object lesson - it pays to keep your files backed up. You can save your Word docs without purchasing Word, but you will need to buy Word eventually. You can use a notepad program instead to read your old files, but very tedious, and much of your info will not be readable. I had a dying desktop, so it was challenging to rescue the old files. Finally was able to offload everything to a backup hard drive (I just cherrypicked the files I wanted to save), then uploaded them to my new laptop, plus had a backup copy ready made. Took most of a weekend. I had close to a hundred GB of data, mostly music mp3's and photos, so the CD solution was not reasonable. An object lesson - it pays to keep your files backed up. You can save your Word docs without purchasing Word, but you will need to buy Word eventually. You can use a notepad program instead to read your old... » Read More I had a dying desktop, so it was challenging to rescue the old files. Finally was able to offload everything to a backup hard drive (I just cherrypicked the files I wanted to save), then uploaded them to my new laptop, plus had a backup copy ready made. Took most of a weekend. I had close to a hundred GB of data, mostly music mp3's and photos, so the CD solution was not reasonable. An object lesson - it pays to keep your files backed up. You can save your Word docs without purchasing Word, but you will need to buy Word eventually. You can use a notepad program instead to read your old files, but very tedious, and much of your info will not be readable. « Show Less
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This kit is exactly what you need to connect up a hard drive that is not in a computer. There are no instructions on how to connect up the cables or how to check a hard drive once it has been connected. If you know very little about computers, then you might want to checkout some "YouTube" videos to see how to connect up a external hard drive.
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I think it has to be connetced to your phone in order to backup. I don't have info regarding use with external hard drive. Sorry.
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Works fine. That is what I too have. I use the Windows 7 Back up program for backing up my computer to the Toshiba Canvio.
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Backing you your computer should be done BEFORE there is a problem. Not after. As long as the hard drive still functions you should be able to place it in the enclosure and plug it into a computer and read your data that way.
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i really need to do this also how is it possible???? i need to add movies to usb so i can watch them on tablet but even though i have digital copies i cannot do it, how do you back up any other dvd that would be better still as i can watch all my movies thanks bill
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If your question is can you backup data from an external drive connected to your laptop, the answer is yes. If you are a Mac user this drive should appear on your desktop just like the external drive from which you want to backup the data. You can then use the backup program of your choice, such as Carbon Copy Cloner. I'm not a PC user but I assume that you would be able to see this drive under the "Computer" setting from the start menu (not sure about where it is in Windows 8). Then you could backup data from the external drive connected to your laptop to the Seagate drive. You might need some help from someone who uses PCs.
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I wrote you a response (which is below) but I realized you might be confused as to what this product is. This isn't an external hard drive. It's a hard drive enclosure, it's basically an empty shell that holds a hard drive. You have to buy the actual drive separately You should be good in that direction PC to Mac. Windows uses the NT File System on it's drives, Mac's can read those files and copy them to the mac, but mac's can't write to a NTFS drive. So you couldn't add or save anything on to the drive. A solution for this would be to make a partition that's FAT32 both mac and windows can read and write to that, it's the file system flash drives usually have. Sometimes there's a 32GB limit on FAT32 drives so you might not be able to turn the whole drive into it. But you can partition one drive into multiple parts.
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I had a backup computer that stopped working, so I too out the baclup computer's IDE hard drive and put it in the United USB 3.0 to IDE & SAt hard drive converter which was connected via USB to my primary computer. I was able to read my old hard drive and could transfer files to my primary computer if I wanted.