I recently purchased a “My Book” 3TB drive to back up the three laptops in the family. The sales person told me I can back-up all three laptops by plugging it into the laptop I want to backup, install the software and I’m all set. I installed it on the first laptop, installed WD SmartWare, upgraded it to the Pro version and ran the backup. This worked fine and my questions are:
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Do I just move on to laptops 2 & 3 and repeat the process and now use the activation code I was given for SmartWare Pro installation.
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Will each machine recognize the drive so I can run the back up process without interferring with the back up files for the other two machines?
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If all three laptops can be backed up, are there any issues with one running Windows 8 and the other two running Windows 8?
My apologies if these issues were addressed in other posts but I couldn’t find quite what I was looking for.
Thanks for any assistance from the community.