How do backups work.

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Hi I have all my movies and pictures on a separate hard drive and my main hardrive just deals with windows and installed programs.

I used windows restore recently, thankfully I was able to access windows in safe mode in order to do that.

So do I just have no use for backups since my second hard drive is just for storage and not at risk,

or is there a way to backup my hard drive with windows on it and all the programs I have in an "installed" state?

 

[johnb35]

Any hard drive is at risk for not working at any moment. It's a mechanical device. You can back it up to an external or another hard drive. Some people use raid 1 to mirror a drive in case of failure.

 

[2048Megabytes]

Any data you value have at least two copies of it on separate hard drives or storage devices. If you really value the data make three copies of it.