backing up

G

Guest

I would like to know how i can back up my computer if i have a laptop? i dont
understand how i can do this without a floppy disk drive???
 
K

Kerry Brown

Cheryl said:
I would like to know how i can back up my computer if i have a laptop? i
dont
understand how i can do this without a floppy disk drive???
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CD-RW or DVD-RW drive, external USB or Firewire drive, network connection.
There are many methods. I recommend a portable hard drive and a disk imaging
program like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost combines with a CD or DVD
drive to back up indivdual files.

Kerry
 
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le_temp_de

Kerry said:
CD-RW or DVD-RW drive, external USB or Firewire drive, network connection.
There are many methods. I recommend a portable hard drive and a disk imaging
program like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost combines with a CD or DVD
drive to back up indivdual files.

Kerry
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Yea, I recommend portable hard drive too. It's very easy and most
dependable way. As for disk imaging program, I prefer Acronis True
Image[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/]. It has
very easy and convenient windows wisard, that makes utilization faster
and better. Also it works a bit faster than Ghost. You could creat an
exact image of your system, keep it on HDD, or make CD/DVD(if you have
rewritable ROM). Due to highest level compression it takes not much
space.
Truly nice software, I've been using it for a long time and completely
satisfy.
 
G

Guest

I received new re-start disc from Toshiba. When I started to install them it
said I should back up my hard drive. I have looked in Systems and maintenance
and all that is in there is a Restore feature. I don't know how to back up my
hard drive.
 
G

Guest

What would happen if I just installed the start up disc without backing up
the hard drive?
 
H

Harry Boyne

If you just installed it, you risk losing all your files.

If you don't have anything important, go ahead. Otherwise, don't!
 

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