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Question on Destination of Backup

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Hello,

I am a first time user of Acronis - I have just downloaded Acronis True Image 2017 and am ready for my first backup to an attached external USB drive.  If I chose full PC backup and select the external drive as destination, will it delete or make unusable other previous content (non Acronis) that was on that external drive before?  I need to make sure I can continue to access my previous content on the external drive after I do the backup.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Javed,

The application will not remove existing data on your external drive.  You should create a folder on that drive to hous the backup.  Keep in mind that by default the app will create a backup scheme of incremental design.  This means that a full backup of your PC will be done first followed by a number of incremental backups as specified.  After that a new full backup will occur prior to the deletion of the first full backup and the process then resumes again.  So make certain you have enough free space on your external drive to accomodate such a backup.