Many Seagate and Maxtor-brand drives include backup programs, and you may use these as well as manual methods to perform backups. To use a backup software, simply install the software that came with your drive and configure the backup to run when you launch it or on a scheduled basis.To backup your data manually, please see Document ID: 206295 for instructions, Remember that you may always backup manually, whether or not you are also using a backup software.There are four main ways to save data (or 'backup') to your external drive: manually (using the copy & paste or the drag & drop method), creating image/clone backups, using a backup software, and using backup programs included within Windows or MacOS. To copy the data to the external hard drive: Please see the ' File system compatibility between operating systems' section below.

Also, please note there may be a file system compatibility issue. Applications will not function when they are copied to a different system. pictures, documents, music, etc.) and not applications.

It is recommended that you only copy data (i.e. In most cases you can use your external hard drive to copy data from one computer to another.