Data Backup Options

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Turbinator

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Hey,
I had to reformat my hard drive and lost a bunch of information. I think I picked up a virus. My Outlook Express address book was wiped out along with some other stuff?!? I don't want to go through this again.
I have a DVD burner now. Should I buy an external hard drive? Which is easier for creating a backup? Burning DVDs or an external hard drive? I see some people run 2 drives in parallel. If the virus bug attacks again wouldn't it get into both drives?
I am looking for the least complicated way to save my information and to put it back on my C drive as required.
Thanks
Tom
 
you can mirror a whole drive on an external and that makes it easier, but dvd's are definitely much cheaper, my suggestion is to just make a separate partition and keep all your important stuff on it and make the OS on the other partition
 
Will my data be safe from virus attacks with a seperate partision? I want to increase my security in addition to having a backup.
 
If you partition it, you will be able to format just one partition at a time, but if you loose a drive, you're done....that's always been my fear. What I am wanting to do is have one large drive, partition it into two seperate drives (one windows the other storage) Then I will have another internal drive at backup ONLY. Basically just use it for important info like famil pictures and word documents and such.
 
I use more than one comp to do my backups. If you have an old comp lying around i would suggest buying a bigger hard drive for it (if it has a really small one) and then just using thar for storage.
 
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