Book Essential- cannot back up properly, cannot retrieve files properly

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Hi, greatly appreciate your feedback.

I bought the my book essential about a year ago.  Never get to work properly and had not been able to come back to see what problems are, let alone use it.  In other words, I have not touched it for more than 7 or 8 months.

Now, I am summarising my problems, very frustrating:

1.  A lot of files have not been backed up.

  1. I was trying to retrieve whatever files have been backed up to a destination folder.  It fails.  None of the files have been retrieved.

I am thinking just to erase the whole drive and do back up again.

I want to make sure when I click “setting”, then “drive erase”, it erases the files on my book essential. does it?  It will not touch anything on the drive of my computer.

It is a silly question, but just want to make sure.  

Thank you so much. 

Regards   

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You are correct it will only delete the content of the My Book unit.

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Does the drive show in Disk Management? If so look down by the bars and does it say anything like Raw or Unallocated?

Joe