I have a MyBook Essential 500 Gb external drive that I purchased in 2008 for use as a backup drive for a Dell PC running Windows XP. The MyBook has worked well and has backed up all of my files and updated them when revisions were made. However, the time has come to retire the Dell PC and I would like to keep the MyBook for use as an external read -only drive that could be plugged into my new laptop running Windows 8.1 so I can view and retrieve files that were saved from the Dell PC. Can I just disconnect the MYBook drive from the old PC and connect it to my laptop so I have file read capability? Any issues with this approach?
Hello,
You can connect the drive into the new computer and you should be able to access your files. However, if you used a backup software to backup your files you will probably have to use the same software to retrieve the files to the new computer.
