I bought a Seagate external hard drive and it won't let me use Acronis

OldMike65 said:

Yes its a good idea to update your Macrium Flash drive too. All you do is stick it in your usb, and it will just overwrite itself. Don't take long.

Really?so you don't have to format it all the time?

If you really want to get adventurous you could put a boot partition on your Seagate external drive, boot your computer from that and run Macrium Reflect rescue from it .

daikbinhlc said:

I've had no problems using Reflect with three Seagate external USB drives. Have you tried running chkdsk on your Seagate drive?

The problem is NOT THE SEAGATE DRIVE!!!!!!!! The permanently installed internal hard drive is failing with increasing numbers of bad sectors.

NavyLCDR said:

The problem is NOT THE SEAGATE DRIVE!!!!!!!! The permanently installed internal hard drive is failing with increasing numbers of bad sectors.

I was asking if I bought the correct drive off Amazon NavyLCDR. As someone said it's for a desktop computer. ButI read some reviews. All is fine. I didn't understand why it wouldn't be for a laptop when it's 2.5 " .

NavyLCDR said:

If you really want to get adventurous you could put a boot partition on your Seagate external drive, boot your computer from that and run Macrium Reflect rescue from it .

Can I not boot from Macrium Flash drive and do it with Windows 10 installation DVD?

I just thought of something don't know if it's possible. But could I restore my niece or nephew's backup to my new hard drive and change Windows 10 key to my own?

hollyoaks777 said:

I was asking if I bought the correct drive off Amazon NavyLCDR. As someone said it's for a desktop computer. ButI read some reviews. All is fine. I didn't understand why it wouldn't be for a laptop when it's 2.5 " .

I said that because if you look at the review in post 88 in the top right corner it says 3.5 inch drive.

SoFine409 said:

I said that because if you look at the review in post 88 in the top right corner it says 3.5 inch drive.

Oh right thanks for letting me know. You had me worried there.

hollyoaks777 said:

I was asking if I bought the correct drive off Amazon NavyLCDR. As someone said it's for a desktop computer. ButI read some reviews. All is fine. I didn't understand why it wouldn't be for a laptop when it's 2.5 " .

That was not directed at you, holly. That was directed at a post previous to my reply by daikbinhlc which has since been removed because it looks like they got banned.

hollyoaks777 said:

Can I not boot from Macrium Flash drive and do it with Windows 10 installation DVD?

Yes.

hollyoaks777 said:

I just thought of something don't know if it's possible. But could I restore my niece or nephew's backup to my new hard drive and change Windows 10 key to my own?

Yes. But if they had any programs/apps installed that they purchased licenses for you would, in essence, be pirating their programs/apps - at least until you uninstalled them.