Preparations for Factory Reset Seagate External Drive
Wiping a Seagate external hard drive is an excellent way to clear data and thus restore its performance. Moreover, formatting the drive also allows you to switch it to a different type of file system. But wiping or formatting the drive will remove all data on the drive. Therefore, you should back up the external drive before formatting it, as it will be almost impossible to restore. You can use third-party backup software for external hard drives, such as EaseUS Todo Backup, to back up your external drive.
EaseUS Todo Backup Home is a multi-purpose backup solution for all computer users on Windows 11/10/8/7. It enables you to back up a file, system, partitions, disk, etc. It offers advanced backup options, including full, incremental, and differential backups and scheduled backups. In addition, it can clone a hard drive, clone an HDD to SSD, and automatically back up a USB drive when plugged in.
Here are the detailed steps to back up your Seagate external hard drive using this external drive backup software.
Step 1. Start with selecting the backup contents.
Step 2. There are four backup categories, File, Disk, OS, and Mail, click Disk.
Step 3. It is available to back up a whole disk or a certain partition. Choose the one you need and click OK.
Step 4. Select the destination where you want to save the backup.
Step 5. For disk/partition backup, you can choose to save the backup to local drive or to NAS.
Step 6. After the backup process is completed, your task will be displayed at the left. Right-click any one of the task, you can further manage your backup such as recover it, create incremental backup, etc.
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