How to Use Seagate Expansion 2TB External Hard drive

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 Microsoft’s Surface tablet provides a USB port for the users to connect the external hard drive for additional data storage. Before we look into the procedure on how to Use Seagate Expansion 2TB External Hard drive with Windows RT, we advise you to keep a note of the points below.


Windows RT does not support the Seagate Dashboard which is an inbuilt software in the drive, as Windows RT does not run standard Windows applications.

If you try to run the software it displays an error message that This app can’t run on your PC.

Ensure that you format the drive in NTFS as Windows RT does not support the Seagate’s NTFS driver installation.


Steps to Use Seagate Expansion 2TB External Hard drive in Windows RT.

Step 1: Use the drag and drop option to move your data to the Expansion 2TB external hard drive on Windows.

Step 2: To transfer various versions of data files to your external hard drive, Windows RT provides an inbuilt software called Windows File History. It is supported by Windows 8 OS too.

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