First time post so hope this is correct spot. 3 days i bought a WD Passport Essential 320G, installed it, updated Firmware to latest (2.019), updated Smartware to latest (1.4.2.5), and performed a backup. The backup seemed to work ok, *except* when i used Windows Explorer to view/check the contents of the Passport drive the contents of the Backup directory does not match the current data on my pc … in fact the content on the Passport drive appears to be what my pc contained about 2.5 years ago … ie. old folder names i have since deleted, old files no longer on my C: drive, etc …very weird !! Has anyone else had, and solved, this problem ?
And the result …same as before !!! Somehow the Smartware software has dug back into my pc’s C: drive and made a backup of the pc contents as it was around May 2008 !!!
What is going on ?
C’mon you technical guru’s, don’t hold back on helping out … please
This is a users forum. Smartware backs up with it’s own method.I don’t have any idea what’s going on with your Smartware backup. I only used it once and uninstalled it. I use the paid 2010 version of this http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en. It’s more flexible and going into backup with explorer is like looking at your PC as far as file names and locations. This will backup the entire system if you wish.
