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Originally posted by Azimov
Yup, my hard drive went south, which sucks since I lost a lot of cool stuff. I'm getting a CD writer on the new one and won't store anything on the hard drive anymore. 2nd hard drive in so many years on that puter.
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Best bet to back up your PC is a second hard drive. In all three of my PCs I have a second hard drive that's the same size as the primary drive, and both drives in each PC are mounted in removable caddys that fit in a 5 1/4" external bay.
Basically the way it works is, I leave the primary drive in the 1st caddy all of the time, and then once a month do a backup to the drive in the 2nd caddy. After doing the backup, I removed the second caddy and store it in the closet for safekeeping.
If I need to restore files from the 2nd drive, I simply pop in the caddy, power up the PC, and copy files from the second to the first. For a total hard drive failure, simply remove the first caddy, pop in the second hard drive in the first caddy's slot, and power up the PC. The entire system looks just like it did when you preformed the last backup -
P.S. I use "Windows Commander" (the BEST file manager for Windows, quite similar to the old "Norton Commander" for DOS) to do all of my backups with. Simply highlight one drive and copy to the next. Couldn't be easier -
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