can my solid state drive be used for backup.? it says it is for data

[sherip99]

Your original question is a bit confusing. Is your SSD your (internal) Windows drive?

I think a good first step would be to run Disk Management with the drives you're asking about connected and post a screenshot of what it shows.  You can right click the start button in Windows and select Disk Management to run it. It should show info about each of the drives.

[ub6424]

Hello @sherip99 

This is a really difficult case, because it already fails when it comes to communication.

Maybe you can help him/her ( @JoshuaCaleb ).

best regards

[JoshuaCaleb]

Sherip99, the first post is due to the fact that the solid state drive is labeleld as a data drive, and i wanted to make sure i could use it to move data from the external drive. Western Digital was telling me to move the data from the external drive to an internal drive to reformat the external drive due to the search issue happening (which appeared to only happen on the external drive).

However, it is not just the external drive. It is everywhere. It appears to be a windows error (in my opinion). search errors occurred since April. Windows edplorer errors since the beginning of this month or mid-month.

The solid state drive is not my main hard drive. It is the D Data drive.

it is the D drive.

[sherip99]

Is the problem drive you call external a third drive that is not currently connected with a USB cable? Are you able to browse the SSD D drive in Window Explorer? It looks like you could just make a new directory on the D drive and copy files from an external usb drive to it.  The "Data" label doesn't mean anything, its just a name as far as I know.