Backup Drive

Forum discussion tagged with Backup Drive.
  1. R

    Question Error: "File History Drive has been disconnected for too long" ?

    Recently I have been having this notification that my file history drive has been disconnected for too long. The notifications were gettting annoying so I decided to try and solve it.... come to find out that my file history drive was drive (G) which I don't have (I have a C drive, F, and E)...
  2. Sorb

    Question Filenames too long to move ?

    I'm trying to backup my HDD to an external HDD with about 300GB and hundreds of thousands of files but in the end there are always 2000 files missing due names too long to be moved. I have tried different programs like FastCopy and SyncBackFree, although they are faster they move even less files...
  3. B

    [SOLVED] Which drive to choose for backup drive: Internal or External

    Hi Everyone, I was wondering which drive that you guys would choose for a Windows backup drive? Currently I have a WD My Book (2013 model) which worked perfectly fine as an incremental Windows backup and manually selected backup drive. However considering the age of the drive and random backup...
  4. seagatedoge

    [SOLVED] Slow write speed to external backup disk

    Hello, I have been using the ST4000DM000 (link) as an external backup drive over USB. Lately I have a very slow write speed to it (16kbps) which seems to halt shortly into starting. Small documents I can create within it, such as a text document, and I can read what seems like all the files...