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Old 04-29-2023, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by jrzeis@tampabay.rr.com View Post
Reformat the drive and use it for extra storage or maybe as a backup drive. You can get an external enclosure, mount the drive in that, and use it as backup device.
That may have been good advice 20 years ago, but today, you can buy a 1TB portable hard drive for less than $20. You can even buy a thumb drive that will hold 1TB of data.