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Using old Acronis backup drive with new computer

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I have built a new computer for our museum. We have successfully transferred all our programs and data from the old computer to the new.machine. We put on a new version of Acronis (I believe it's True Image 2021 standalone.) Our external hard drive has backups from the old machine, which we don't need anymore.I would think that all we would need to do is reformat the external hard drive and start anew with the new Acronis. I read somewhere that you shouldn't just delete Acronis backup files from a hard drive. Is this correct? Thanks for your assistance.

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Fred, welcome to these public User Forums.

Reformatting your old hard drive should be the best method of making it ready to be reused.

You could do this by using an Administrator Command prompt window, then using diskpart commands.

diskpart
list disk   (to identify the USB drive, i.e. 1)
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit