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I have about 100 GB of business documents and another 200 GB or so of personal files (lots of music & videos). Currently, they do not fit on my harddrive, so I use a couple of those Western Digital portable hard drives.
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Get a 500 GB external hardrive and backup everything on there for starters.
Also, next time you get a computer, make sure it comes with a RAID 1 configuration so that you have 2 harddrives that mirror each other (essentially constantly creating a backup in case one fails. And make sure you keep a large external drive for backing up files.
I'm a photographer so I transfer everything to an external hard drive at the end of each year, erase everything on my PC's internal drive and start fresh. Just make sure you are archiving your drives properly.
How do I back up software on my computer to my portable hard drive?
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I recently bought a Western Digital 160g portable hard drive and I want to back up some of the most important programs on my computers hard drive to my portable drive in case my computer crashes, how do I do that?
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Plug it in first then open explorer.
It should then show as an extra drive on the list. e.g. External drive (D:).
Now choose a program folder you want to keep and click, hold and drag it to the external drive.
It will not remove the original folder. It will make a copy on the new drive.
That's the easy bit but there's a big but.
A lot of programs when they are installed scatter files around the computer.
If this is the case with a program you are backing up it won't work on another computer because some of the files are missing. You would need to have the original installation file. That's a lesson I learnt the hard way. The only way you can check is to try running it from another computer. If you run it from the external drive while it's still connected to your host computer it will run because it finds the needed files on the internal drive.
Some programs are self contained and have all the files they need to run.
At the very least you should also back up all the files you have self generated such as text, graphics, photo's, music etc. You're thinking ahead so I reckon you've already thought of that.
What I do now is each time I download a new program I put a copy on the external before installing it. Once I've got enough to make it worthwhile I burn them to disk. Double protection!
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