Would anybody here use something like this http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=12491&sk=MC51419 to backup your hard drive. They say you can backup with just a simple push of the button. Is this the best route to take or should I do something else. Thanks.
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DCIScouts
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It should just be a single button that copies the entire hard drive location that you have set in the preferences. Kind of a "set it and forget it" type of thing... Some new computers come with a hard drive recovery program, but the hard drive has to be functioning in order to use it, so an external or some other hard drive is usually a much better way to go...
In order to backup and protect your information and files etc. Come to think of it I do have a big hard drive. Is it possible to just partition your hard drive and then keep the information on both drives so if one drive fails you have the info on the other? Well this might only give some degree of protection but not a whole lot. Correct? So in order to backup considering costs external hard drives are the best way to go and then use the windows backup or some other program out there in order to do it automatically on a regular basis. Does all that make sense? Thanks
Sacrinyellow5
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I think it should work perfectly fine and I myself have never used the backup software which has came with my external drives, but I'm sure it would work idealy for what you want to do. I usually just back up files, so that why I have never use the software. I have never back up a whole drive. I was however thinking about buying a drive similar to the one you have posted and backing up my 4 computers on it, so let me know how it goes.