[catfish1957]

Good luck. I have owned a PC since 1986, and learned the hard way that the best way is storing anything important or of value on a external drive of some sorts, (along with your regular hard drive).

This redundancy has made life easier for me through the years, and will protect you whether the next hardware upgrade is planned or an emergency.

[TurboZamboni]

I have an external drive(Passport)

I tried to download everything to it and it stopped 3/4 way through with some stupid error message .

It’s not due to being undersized either- I checked that.
It’s 500 GB and everything on my laptop is only 231 GB.

I don’t know if it’s not formatted for Windows or what.

[TurboZamboni]

thanks.

my Passport was supposedly already formated for Windows.

tried to download everything to it and it stopped 3/4 way through with some stupid error message .

It’s not due to being undersized either- I checked that.
It’s 500 GB and everything on my laptop is only 231 GB.

I don’t know if it’s not formatted for Windows or what. Not sure how to tell.