Hi, Just got my maxtor 300gb external hdd up and running and had a couple of questions i hoped could be answered.
1. I formatted the drive to make it ready to use and the memory has gone down to 279gb straight after the format. why is there 21gb space been occupied when the drive is formatted?? is this normal for a formatted hdd??
2. Is possible to back up my laptops hdd, (capacity 40gb), to the external one, and also be able to return my laptop to the backuped state should it mess up completly??
Thanks
1. I formatted the drive to make it ready to use and the memory has gone down to 279gb straight after the format. why is there 21gb space been occupied when the drive is formatted?? is this normal for a formatted hdd??
2. Is possible to back up my laptops hdd, (capacity 40gb), to the external one, and also be able to return my laptop to the backuped state should it mess up completly??
Thanks