My laptop is a Dell Inspiron with Windows 10 Home and 8 GB RAM for storage.
I have a 1.0 TB Toshiba Canvio Slim II USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive that is over 90% full. What I would like to do is restore the Toshiba HDD to its original state - basically erasing all backed up files - and start over.
I have already run Disk Cleanup and Optimize and defrag; both made very slight difference in the available space of 124 GB.
I checked Compress the drive to save disk space, and it is in process now.
I thought I could simply reformat a disk to start over, but apparently I do not understand. I have an identical Toshiba for a separate Dell that I reformatted when it was at 40% capacity, but the app provided with the software (NTI Backup Now EZ 4) would not allow it to be used again after being reformatted. I connected the second Toshiba to the Dell Inspiron, but it would not run on it either. ??? I'm out of ideas.
Again, my primary request for help is this:
What I would like to do is restore the Toshiba HDD to its original state - basically erasing all backed up files - and start over.
Thanks for any help!
I have a 1.0 TB Toshiba Canvio Slim II USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive that is over 90% full. What I would like to do is restore the Toshiba HDD to its original state - basically erasing all backed up files - and start over.
I have already run Disk Cleanup and Optimize and defrag; both made very slight difference in the available space of 124 GB.
I checked Compress the drive to save disk space, and it is in process now.
I thought I could simply reformat a disk to start over, but apparently I do not understand. I have an identical Toshiba for a separate Dell that I reformatted when it was at 40% capacity, but the app provided with the software (NTI Backup Now EZ 4) would not allow it to be used again after being reformatted. I connected the second Toshiba to the Dell Inspiron, but it would not run on it either. ??? I'm out of ideas.
Again, my primary request for help is this:
What I would like to do is restore the Toshiba HDD to its original state - basically erasing all backed up files - and start over.
Thanks for any help!