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tonkotsu2
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2 years ago

I cannot restore old external drive backup to reformatted drive

I backed up my SSD with "dropbox backup" to reformat it.   When I tried to restore it, the SSD that I reformatted is being recognized as a different storage, so I cannot restore it. What should I...
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tonkotsu2
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

The backed-up data is extensive, so regular downloading is not possible.

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