Why would you WANT to format? So why would you use WDT?Ĥ.
FRM suggests to use external WDT suggests flash drive, because destination will be formatted. Does WDT do the same as FRM? Do both return the drive to factory condition? And newer files (e.g. _? Are these distinct from a simple "boot disk" - which I could at least start up a machine, and at least retrieve files off it even if I can't boot it yet?Ģ. If it wears you out, at least pick one below!ġ. WDT is what several youtubes tell me to get to make a bootable flash drive. (I finally just shut down and then unplugged it and restarted.) Forever (years) I have never had "safely remove" the external drive bal, but now get "generic volume cannot be stopped" after I ran FRM, and then it said it every time.
MEMEO INSTANT BACKUP REMOVE OLD BACKUPS FREE
BTW the 500M has about 500 of 500 free space per "Computer." (2 days later, now, it has 5G free. When it was done there was the new 500 Meg partition DBR_BOOT, drive I: (the first available) but oddly still 13G free on the rest of the external (drive L:).
MEMEO INSTANT BACKUP REMOVE OLD BACKUPS FULL
It contains an Acronis 2016 full backup (3 files) of my precious XP machine and a tree of a zillion individual (XP) files made by the seriously flawed but still somewhat useful Memeo Instant Backup (came with the external drive, an 320G Seagate GoFlex). It seemed to take between 30 and 90 minutes, I stopped watching.įRM said to have 9G free on the drive the drive had 13G free. I chose "best" option external (USB 2.0) instead of "better" option flash drive. New Dell XPS 8900 with i7, Win 7 SP1 **įRM is the first step of Dell Backup and Recovery (preinstalled, presumably free version). Pick a piece of this and instruct and contextualize away, even where there's no question. I can't expect any human to cover everything I wonder or ask about here. For brevity, using abbreviations FRM and WDT here even if not mainstream abbreviations. I did dutifully spent hours on youtubes and articles but am now dazed and confused thanks for helping.
I'll try to be concise and accurate, and I know this is going to be real long, but I'll make it easy to read fast. I'm a bit novice, but I've seen far stupider users.