Question posted by elskens on November 20th, 2010

When I Delete Anthing On My Hard Drive It Deletes It On The External Drive Also.

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Answer #1: Posted by Njunk on November 21st, 2010 7:22 AM
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This is most likely due to your external hard drive being used as a mirror system to back up your current hard drive. There should be an option within your external hard drive software to disable this.

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