Can I trick Carbonite into backing up an external hard drive?

Can I trick Carbonite into backing up an external hard drive? I use Carbonite to back up my PC (Windows XP). We were running low on disk space on our home PC (down to 15 GB), so I went out and purchased an external hard drive. However, Carbonite will not back it up. Is it possible to set up Carbonite to backup an external hard drive?
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Guest [Entry]

"Not sure if this is an ethical dilemma or a Carbonite capabilities issue. That being said...

Have a look at this MS Knowledge Base article: How to create and use NTFS mounted drives in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003. You can ""mount"" the external drive as a folder off of your internal drive."

Guest [Entry]

"Not quite an answer to your Carbonite problem, but while researching online backup systems recently, I found Backblaze. They will backup external disks (though not network-based storage).

Besides switching services, upgrading your internal drive (or adding another one, if you have an extra bay) seems like the best way forward. “Disks are cheap”, right?"