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Probably a dumb question, but: do I need to do anything to my media drive when swapping from Windows? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I'm not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

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[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Portable is a strong word. It's not so much a portable drive as it is a desktop external HDD that utilizes USB for data transfer. Technically portable, but not really made to toss in your pocket. It wouldn't be an external drive if I hadn't run out of headers before I wanted it. And I already had stuff on my other drives so I couldn't just swap one out. I mean, I could, but I dedicate them to things - system drive, games, raw video captures to edit, exported videos that have been edited / miscellaneous, and then this external drive for phone backups and archived media.