<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi all,</div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have an idea my laptop is feeling the strain a bit, and I should like to get an external hard drive to back up all my data before something bad happens.</div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have a Sandisk SSD and a Samsung SSD, but cannot get the laptop HP elitebook running Mint Mate (Caja 1.12.7) to recognise either of them. I'd appreciate some help with this please, and advice on what external hard drive is best to back up important data. Looking at at least 1Tb.</div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Many thanks, looking forward to hearing from you.</div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Best wishes,</div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp251e4aa2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bill Thomson<br></div></body></html>