That seems too easy. Or do I need a special harddrive that connects via an ethernet port? How do I configure it to “appear” on my devices?

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You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.

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And now you want to connect it to another computer without opening the case and using the internal hard drive cabling, right? First, you need to determine what kind of cable the old hard drive uses.

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Learn how to backup network drive to a local drive in Windows 11/10. You can backup your network drive data to a local drive or another cloud storage.

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