Open Seagate Dashboard by double-clicking on the icon.The following will walk you through setting up a PC backup.

Locate Seagate Dashboard at the bottom of the window.Use Add and Remove/Programs and Features depending on the version of Windows. Double-click the Seagate Dashboard Installer.Located in the main folder on the Seagate Drive Note: The installation may require a reboot, please save and close all documents prior to the installation process. The following steps will help guide you through the installation process. This will help prevent you from losing data in the event of drive failure. It is less important the type and more important that it is in another location. If you are running out of space on your internal drive and need to move the data to the external you will want to make sure that you also move it to another location and you can use whatever media you want such as USB flash drive, another external drive, CD/DVDs, etc. If you use the Dashboard software then delete the data off your internal drive it is no longer in two locations meaning you do not have a backup. A backup is having your important data in more than one physical location such as USB flash drive, another external drive, CD/DVDs, etc. It is important to establish what a backup is in an attempt to avoid data loss.

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